I was drawn to the bold premise of this novel where one day all Palestinian Arabs suddenly vanish from the State of Israel. This challenges the notion ...

“Under the Eye of the Big Bird” is definitely not a traditional sort of novel but more like islands of events separated by space and time. Hundreds (or ...

I've had mixed experiences reading Tokarczuk's work in the past. I didn't get on with “Flights” but loved “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”. ...

I was encouraged to finally read this great big German classic after stopping in Davos during a holiday. We tried to visit the hotel and former ...

A physically and emotionally scarred man returns to his hometown after many years of having lived away in the city. His mother has died and he's there to ...

When nineteen-year-old Iselin Hanssen disappears during a run in a popular hiking area in Bodø, northern Norway, suspicion quickly falls on her boyfriend. ...

This month marks the centenary of Mishima's birth so it felt like a good time to read his gay coming-of-age modern classic first published in 1949. ...

What if you woke up one day to discover that your country no longer exists? That was the experience for East Germans and the protagonists of this novel ...

  Today I am delighted to feature the fourth in the great Icelandic Noir series, An Arora Investigation by Lilja Sigurdardottir. Dark as Night was ...

Céspedes was a mid-20th century Cuban-Italian writer whose excellent novel “Forbidden Notebook” I fell in love with last year when a new English ...