Harvill Secker
Savage Lands
Louisiana in the early years of the 18th century; this is a novel about the French settlers who attempted to…
Books Burn Badly
Editors' choice
Rivas put the following words in the mouth of Polka the gravedigger, one of the most charismatic characters of Books…
The Man from Beijing
The Man from Beijing was first published in Sweden in 2008. The English translation appeared this February. It is a…
Savage Lands
It is 1704. There are fewer than 200 people in Louisiana, the newest French colony. Craftsmen and soldiers have sent…
The Einstein Girl
Although this novel begins in Germany two months before Hitler came to power, at first we hardly feel the presence…
The Blind Side of the Heart
Eastern Germany at the end of the Second World War. The story starts with a young boy, Peter, being abandoned…
Orwell Diaries
This collection of eleven of Orwell’s diaries, from 1931 to 1949, is a treasure, both for the historical and literary…
The Kingdom of Light
1240, Florence. In this, the second of the Dante mysteries, the poet finds a galley beached by the river Arno;…
The Last Dickens
Charles Dickens has just died, and his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is unfinished. Boston publisher James R…
Blood & Ice
Photo-journalist Michael Wilde, tormented by guilt and grief, takes on an assignment in the Antarctic, a chance to abandon the…
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