Literary
Storm Birds
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Iceland 1959. Trawling in the North Atlantic is hard work, and usually dangerous, but this February is something beyond the experience of even the ...Read Review
The American Fiancée
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This rollicking Canadian novel, composed in lavish storytelling style, sweeps back and forth through the 20th century, spanning the Lamontagne family history, along ...Read Review
Beyond Black There Is No Colour: The Story of Forough Farrokhzad
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In the last century, three major women poets died in their prime. Two, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, took their own lives. Forough ...Read Review
Africaville
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Colvin’s debut novel, a literary saga spanning over seventy years, is as much about the legacy of a place as the place ...Read Review
I’m Staying Here
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Translations often give us insights into times and places we seldom encounter in our native literature. I’m Staying Here (Resto Qui) is ...Read Review
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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Sam and Lucy are at one of life’s terrible crossroads: their father has just died, with their mother gone before. The orphans, ...Read Review
The Bell in the Lake
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Mytting has a thing about wood. He is the author of the best-selling non-fiction book Norwegian Wood, and his first novel was The ...Read Review
Tyll
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Tyll Ulenspiegel was a German jester and trickster, and legend places his death in 1350. In this novel the German author Daniel Kehlmann has ...Read Review
Celestina’s Burnings
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Witch-hunting was common in 15th-century Florence. It could conveniently be combined with another favourite activity—bonfires. Once caught, tried and tortured witches were ...Read Review
Things in Jars
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Red-haired, sharp-witted Bridie Devine is an interesting woman; she’s been a lot of things in her life, the latest of which is ...Read Review
