Welcome to July’s #RivetingReviews, part of the European Literature Network’s French Book Week, organised in partnership with Pro Helvetia. We…
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As this novel – by the most prominent Catalan writer of the twentieth century, brought to us for the first…
I’m introducing May 2020’s Riveting Reviews with an appeal: The European Literature Network needs your help. And by that I…
This debut is as well-crafted an LGBT+ bildungsroman as you’ll find anywhere. Set in 1980s Poland, the protagonist, Ludwik’s sexual…
We’re into our second month of UK lockdown but we’re still reading, still writing and still sharing our thoughts about…
Throughout this entrancing and disturbing novel, there is a continual sense of oscillation: a movement from a concrete, secure space,…
In Boccaccio’s Decameron ten young people escape the plague-ridden city of Florence and spend ten days travelling between beautifully appointed…
Lucky Per is extraordinary in many ways, but perhaps the most extraordinary is that it is only now available in…
Welcome to February’s Riveting Reviews. The line between fiction and fact seems very faint in our selection this month. We…
Towards the end of My Parents – one part of this one-volume, two-book memoir – Hemon shows his sister the…
Happy New Year and welcome to our first Riveting Reviews of 2020. With the shock of January out of the…
In my introduction I mentioned that before working on The German Riveter my experience of German literature was limited to…
