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Piglet by Lottie Hazell, novel of emotional instability set mainly in Oxford. I probably would never have picked this novel up – given the title and the cover image of food (donuts for theUK edition) – but I read...
Shrouded by Sólveig Pálsdóttir, police procedural set in Reykjavik, Iceland. Translated by Quentin Bates Shrouded is the fourth in a series of police procedural crime novels from Iceland’s Sólveig Pálsdóttir. Fans of the series will need no introduction to...
Berliners by John Simmons, the story of Berlin in the 20th century. Illustrated by Andrzej Krause. Berliners is a short book – only 30 pages – formatted as a poem. John has written the chapters in a variety of...
Melmoth by Sarah Perry, novel set in Europe (Prague, England, Czechoslovakia), Manila and Turkey. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE OBSERVER FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 When translator Helen Franklin encounters her friend Karel in the cobbled...
Norway’s hidden WW2 shame: The Bigamy Law, a change that would have devastating consequences for a small group of women and children. The Bigamy Law is the inspiration for The Silent Resistance by Anna Norman. The Silent Resistance...
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