Sarah Bower
Mornings in Jenin
The novel opens with the olive harvest of 1941 in the Palestinian village of Ein Hod. The pastoral idyll is…
Island of Bones
In 1783, the excavation of an old family tomb in the Lake District reveals a bloody mystery. Called to investigate…
Treblinka
The Holocaust changed our language. The word ‘holocaust’ itself has had, since 1945, no other meaning than that which conjures…
Wartime Notebooks
This is a difficult book to categorise as Duras’s notebooks, like those of most writers, are an amalgam of different…
A Storm in the Blood
As the cover blurb for this novel points out, it is not difficult to draw parallels between the Siege of…
The Afrika Reich
Let me begin with a recipe for a literary cocktail. Take a slug of Robert Harris and an equal measure…
Magdeburg
Richardson’s first novel takes as its backdrop the Siege of Magdeburg in 1631, one of the more brutal passages of…
Phantoms of Breslau
This is the third of Krajewski’s Eberhard Mock crime novels to be translated into English by Danusia Stok. It is…
Papa Spy
The Spanish Civil War is perhaps best known to readers through the works of writers like George Orwell and Ernest…
A Different Sky
Editors' choice
This great sprawl of a novel is set in Singapore from 1927 to 1956. It follows the fortunes of three…
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