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Prague 1938

By Dara Kavanagh - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

“1938 is a catastrophic date in the history of the Czech people, a people who have never lacked for catastrophic dates”. This novel is ...Read Review

The Rehearsals

By Oliver Ready (trans.) - By Vladimir Sharov - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

Written in the early 1980s, and now translated into English for the first time, Vladimir Sharov’s The Rehearsals is considered a modern ...Read Review

Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter

By Judith Landry (trans.) - By Margherita Giacobino - Published 2017

Genres:

LiterarySaga

This is the story of a matriarchal Italian family (or arguably two such families that merge into one), from the late 19th century ...Read Review

Wonders Will Never Cease

By Robert Irwin - Published 2016Published 2017

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Acclaimed by A. S. Byatt as one of the UK’s greatest living novelists, Robert Irwin has produced his first novel in seventeen ...Read Review

The Prodigious Physician

By Jorge de Sena - By Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) - Published 2016

Genres:

Literary

A Portuguese poet and novelist, de Sena chose exile in Brazil, then California, rather than live under the Salazar dictatorship. To make a ...Read Review

Marie Grubbe

By Jens Peter Jacobsen - By Mikka Haugaard (trans.) - Published 2015

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Marie Grubbe is a new English translation of a novel written in 1876. It is loosely based on the true story of a Danish ...Read Review

What Became of the White Savage

By Aneesa Abbas Higgins (trans.) - By Francois Garde - Published 2015

Genres:

Literary

Narcisse Pelletier, an 18-year-old French sailor, returns from searching for water to find his ship gone. He is alone on the coast of ...Read Review

Time of the Beast

By Geoff Smith - Published 2014

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In 666 A.D., Athwold, a young monk who has found himself at personal and doctrinal loggerheads with his abbot, leaves his monastery to ...Read Review

The Book of Nights

By Sylvie Germain - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

Originally published in France in 1985, this novel maps the lives of the “freshwater” Peniel family over a hundred years and appears to focus ...Read Review

Pfitz

By Andrew Crumey - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

Conceived of by a prince, Rheinnstadt will be a great city, both architecturally impressive and culturally diverse; every detail will be mapped and ...Read Review