As this novel – by the most prominent Catalan writer of the twentieth century, brought to us for the first…
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Sara Mesa’s Four by Four is a novel of secrets revealed gradually. Its three sections progressively, though obliquely, uncover the…
The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero is an evocative novella set in Austria in spring 1945, during the final…
One day eleven-year-old Elly goes missing while cycling to her judo class at the nearby sports centre. No explanation for…
I long wanted to read Jason Lutes classic graphic trilogy of the Weimar Republic, but decided not to do so…
Those who read Scandinavian crime fiction have not been surprised at the revelations of violent neo-Nazi movements in the Nordic…
Åsa Larsson is a markedly different writer from her fellow Swede Camilla Läckberg (discussed elsewhere on this site), with her…
In 2017, there were two Norwegian nominees for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. One was Vigdis Hjorth, who’s controversial yet…
