This is a surprisingly short novel considering the vastness of its subject matter: right-wing extremism and the banality of evil.…
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Five years ago exactly, in the summer of 2016, I wrote a review for these pages of Dulce Maria Cardoso’s…
Set in contemporary Spain, Rabbit Island offers readers a recognisable world, subtly twisted by Navarro’s dark prose. This somewhat nightmarish…
A frequently reiterated question (as this writer can attest) is: ‘When will the Nordic Noir boom be over?’ The answer…
French writer Laurent Binet’s new novel, Civilisations is fictional history, turning true events upside down. What if a group of…
The sad occasion of Marcel Péricourt’s funeral turns profoundly tragic when his grandson falls from a second-floor window. The child’s…
The Road to the City is, at first glance, shockingly simple. From the first-person narrative voice of the seventeen-year-old Delia,…
This is a beautifully observed ‘roses and thorns’ love story. A bond forged between two children in Bologna cuts across…
Three times I have travelled to Venice. I was teenager the first time and only spent a few evening hours…
Welcome to June’s #RivetingReviews – our literary Euros. This isn’t a competition, of course, but if it were, Italy…
The Basel Killings (originally published in 2004), is the first of a series of novels featuring Inspector Peter Hunkeler and…
This is the fourth novel by former Catalan policeman, Víctor del Árbol, to be translated into English. Very few writers…
