January darkness was enveloping the northern hemisphere when the Icelandic trawler Mávur (‘Seagull’) left Reykjavik on its journey towards the…
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Robespierre foresaw his own execution – realising it would an inevitable consequence of the bloodlust the French Revolution unleashed. In…
Another book about the Holocaust? Well, yes, but this book is not just about what happened during the Second World…
The literary map is full of iconic writers virtually unknown to the English-speaking world. In Norway, Inger Hagerup is considered…
Their influence on crime novels and cinema has been prodigious – so why isn’t the critical stock of Boileau &…
To say that Michel Bussi’s After the Crash made a considerable mark is to understate the case. The highly original…
A vicious attack in Obor Market sends shock waves across Bucharest – a young man is stabbed to death and…
Literary success stories can have strange beginnings. After Eugen Chirovici came to England from his native Romania, it took only…
Author of more than fifty books, including novels, collections of essays, as well as quite a few volumes of poetry,…
Mihail Sebastian was born Iosif Hechter in 1907 in Brăila on the Danube; he changed his name in 1927 when…
Captives deserves to stand on the same shelf with Joyce’s Ulysses, Döblin’s Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury,…
This is a daring book not only because it skilfully combines three different genres (crime, fantasy and historical non-fiction), but…
