It’s September and that means … World Kid Lit Month! The time to go global with our reading, and think about broadening horizons in terms of the books we make available to youn
my mother deprived me of her language and herselfmy infant tongue was left to the mercy ofharsh monastic sounds on peatmuttered prayers that warded off all thingsresidual slanging
This haunting debut novel opens with the memory of a scene of abuse suffered by a child at the hands of his cruel and violent mother. The reader is immediately plunged into the har
Sasja Janssen is a poet and a teacher of creative writing based in Amsterdam. First she published two novels; later her focus shifted to poetry. Her works have been very well recei
AND YET IT BEGINS (1) There was someone someone was spread into the black sun like starlings made of dust where she in the tingling, buckling, in balloons that gracefully touched a
Esther Gerritsen is a celebrated Dutch author and playwright. She’s also building a reputation as a screenwriter, with scripts including the 2019 film Instinct and the new TV ser
TIDELINES The sea begins somewhere else each day. I head for the surf in a straight line. The waves of the retreating tide have whipped up the sand. My feet sink into it. I wade th
THERMOMETER If you’ve got two people and one of them does synchronised swimming and the other doesn’t, everything goes wrong. In the end we put thermometers into each otherR
This is a novel – an exceptional one – about death and grief, about a family living through the aftermath of the loss of a child, and not coping. As a reader you suffer the ‘
Today, on Wednesday 26 August, The Discomfort of Evening, written by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison, was announced as the winner of The
