This season’s must-reads feature a diverse mix of novels and memoirs that delve into everything from complex human connections and societal shifts to behind-the-scenes glimpses from legendary figures in music ...
As the 2024 U.S. elections approach, the issue of book banning has evolved from a cultural flashpoint into a battleground for democracy. With censorship at an all-time high, particularly targeting ...
As summer’s heat intensifies and the nights become warm and muggy, there’s no better time to immerse yourself in some chilling horror fiction. Here are eight highly anticipated titles set ...
The debut short story from Polish writer Urszula Honek, White Nights, is akin to reading an account of a haunted place – one that is beautiful and devastating in equal ...
“What, upon re-reading, do we find we missed before?” Thomas Stewart delves into fantasy novels, Gerald Brom, and the festive practice of re-reading your favorite book.
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In this interview, we delve deeper into Bradley Tusk’s motivations and insights into his debut novel. “Obvious in Hindsight,”
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A book that translates maths into literary terms and literature into mathematical values.
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This is a novel that on the surface feels quite innocent, but which has a deeply troubling core. In the current refugee crisis it is a novel of which we ...
A personal investigation into land, and its role in forging a civilisation.
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A haunting family saga about love, family, and the often unconsidered victims of war.
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Twenty-one years of solitary imprisonment have made the Kurdish freedom-fighter Muzafar-i Subhdam a nomad, roaming inside his own thoughts…
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As a relatively young author, Brigitte Reimann imbued the novel with her convictions and enthusiasm for the work that her generation was doing to rebuild a post-war Germany that was ...
An uncompromising new voice from San Andres that describes a magical, transcendent place.
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Scego blends Italy’s contentious past and present, unearthing the layers beneath Rome’s glittering surface.
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How can we map new itineraries of empathy? Cartography is a way to organise knowledge, and a walk is what grounds those ideas in reality.
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A novel which effortlessly transcends the banality of categorisation to tell the story of a body and its struggle to feel whole.
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Saunders has made a name for himself as both a writers’ writer and a readers’ writer and this collection is full of everything you’d expect from his author.
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Despite dealing with dark subjects, this is a novel of lightness and hope
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Ito’s talent for weaving many voices is brilliantly demonstrated in this newly translated work.
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A savage and touching exploration of the realities of life in post-civil-war Korea
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