The latest addition to my website is Bakhtiyar Ali's Henarî Dunya (The Last Pomegranate Tree In The World). This is another superb novel from Bakhtiyar Ali telling the story of…
The latest addition to my website is Laurent Mauvignier's Histoires de la nuit (The Birthday Party). The book is set in a small French hamlet called Three Lone Girls. There…
The latest addition to my website is Almudena Sánchez' s Fármaco (Pharmakon). This is about Almudena Sánchez's struggle with depression, which hit her in her early thirties. Unlike other novels/memoirs…
The latest addition to my website is Angelos Terzakis' Ταξίδι με τον Έσπερο [Travelling with Hesperus]. It tells the story of Glaukos, a sixteen year old rGreek boy who has…
The latest addition to my website is Daniele Mencarelli's Tutto chiede salvezza (Everything Calls For Salvation). This is an autobiographical novel about seven days Mencarelli spent in a mental institution…
The latest addition to my website is Sergei Lebedev's Год кометы (The Year of the Comet). Our unnamed hero is born in the later days of the Soviet Union and…
The latest addition to my website is Ahmed Taibaoui's اختفاء السيد لا أحد The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody). Set in Algeria, the novel is divided into two linked parts. In…
While we have been struggling with the various problems we face such as climate change, Putin and his nasty little war, supply chain issues, inflation, SCOTUS, Trump (possibly) resurgent and,…
The latest addition to my website is Jon Fosse's Morgon og kveld (Morning and Evening) . We first meet Johannes as he is being born, the second child of Marta…
The latest addition to my website is Luca Rastello's Piove all'insù (The Rain’s Falling Up. The book is primarily set in the 1970s-80s in Turin, though told from the perspective…