Flatland’s exquisitely crafted exposé of family life is acutely perceptive, and while her analysis is forensic it is also empathetic,…
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This is a beautifully observed ‘roses and thorns’ love story. A bond forged between two children in Bologna cuts across…
This is the fourth novel by former Catalan policeman, Víctor del Árbol, to be translated into English. Very few writers…
My Brother the Messiah is a philosophical novel set in a post-apocalyptic world, between eighty and one hundred and fifty…
My Brother is a bleak tale of childhood abuse and dysfunctional adulthood set in arctic Sweden. You will need to…
The amorphous and labyrinthine structure of Kokoschka’s Doll is certainly demanding. Portuguese polymath Afonso Cruz presents an array of parallel…
Robespierre foresaw his own execution – realising it would an inevitable consequence of the bloodlust the French Revolution unleashed. In…
Vernon Subutex is a fictional biography that addresses several prominent themes of our times. The narrative is driven by a…
Existential novels are often weighty tomes, moody and complex. Not so Summer Light… which deals with the theme of life’s…
