- Location(s): Baghdad, Amsterdam, Serbia
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1980 to early 2000s
From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam… Blasim s stories present an uncompromising...
- Location(s): Catalonia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid/Late 19th Century
Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller’s The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the...
- Location(s): London, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
‘Secrets and regrets, ambition and venality. I have seldom come across a novel so redolent of le Carré.’ Charles Cumming London, mid-1970s. A sweltering July in Whitehall, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature rises with each...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
The Madonnas of Leningrad, the first novel by Seattle professor Debra Dean, is the story of Marina, a young museum docent who takes refuge in the Hermitage during the 1941 siege of Leningrad. The paintings and artifacts are gone,...