Welcome to September’s #RivetingReviews. With the publishing world in overdrive, and ‘Super Thursday’ looming on 9 October – the date when the big publishers release
Welcome to June’s #RivetingReviews. This quarter we have reviews of more than twenty titles for you to feast on and perhaps take inspiration from for your summer reading. I think
Within not too many pages of this masterpiece from one of the leading lights of Bulgarian letters, one has a sense of greatness. It is the kind of greatness you feel when reading G
An interior designer who lives the minimal aesthetic he promotes, going so far as to locate himself in flat, treeless Orkney, is commissioned by a design magazine to paint a massiv
Time does not travel in a straight line in Sara Mesa’s masterful new novel (in masterful English translation by Katie Whittemore). Yes, we begin shortly after Martina – niece t
Flood Tide has all the trappings of a conventional crime novel: writer Dunja returns to her hometown – a rather tired seaside resort on the Adriatic – to investigate the unexpl
It is easy for authors interested in philosophy and linguistics to allow their fiction to slip into a slough of linguistic puzzles and philosophical ponderings (not always, but oft
There is something of the fairy tale about this story of two ill-sorted sisters returning to their family home to clear it after their father’s death: the house itself sits deep
Ginzburg’s final novel is replete with substitutions. The book’s inciting incident is it’s central character, Giuseppe’s decision to abandon his life in Rome – his apartm
There is violence at the heart of everyday life; such is the lesson that this collection of powerful stories seems to teach. Whether it be in the life of a worker at a meat factory
