This is a tense, tender novella set in Germany just after the Second World War. An English photographer tries to understand what he saw in the liberated concentration camps by driv
Suiza by first-time novelist Bénédicte Belpois is a perfect capsule of everything I love in a novel: beauty, darkness, humour; it covers the whole range of human emotions, and la
This French author with a contemporary European attitude has created a brilliant female duo: a profiler and a true-crime writer. These heroines face an uncomfortable and intriguing
On the surface this appears to be a depiction of the final stages of a long war. Below that surface we find a beautifully lyrical account of a family’s attempt, together with its
Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks takes the nineteenth-century novel into the twentieth century. It is one of the great social novels – a family saga told over three generations – y
You’ll never forget meeting Rosa, the splendidly horrible grandmother who narrates this novel. She’ll go to any length to get what’s best for her family, or for herself (ofte
This classic children’s adventure story pits ten-year-old Siri against the villainous Captain Whitehead in a bid to save her little sister from slavery. Though set in a frozen ar
The first of a trilogy, Middagsmörker (which also translates as ‘Darkness at Midday’) is a YA fantasy novel set in an isolated Sami community in Swedish Lappland. Young Áili
At the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Sun 7 Oct 2018 Sebastian Faulks hosted a panel of European Literature Specialists. A reminder of the Reading Europe event: In these fraugh
Thérèse Raquin was first published in magazine form in 1867, then as a full novel and has been adapted many times for film, TV, theatre and opera. When I studied French at univer
