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Type: Book
Date: 18 Oct 2016

Bricks and Mortar

Clemens Meyer’s dazzling, dizzying tour de force chronicles the growth of the sex industry in the former East Germany over the last 30 years

Type: Book
Date: 05 Oct 2017

Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this taut, unsettling ghost story for the real world

Type: Book
Date: 07 Sep 2017

Black Moses

Alain Mabanckou’s poetic carnival of a novel chronicles a riotous journey through the Pointe-Noire underworld in late 20th century Congo-Brazzaville

Type: Book
Date: 04 Jan 2018

The 7th Function of Language

Laurent Binet’s comic secret history of the French intelligentsia is both a wild send-up and an exuberant celebration of French intellectual tradition

Type: Book
Date: 02 Nov 2017

Swallowing Mercury

In vivid prose filled with texture, colour and sound, Wioletta Greg describes an ordinary adult world encroaching on a child’s extraordinary universe

Type: Book
Date: 02 Aug 2018

Go, Went, Gone

In a powerful response to a growing crisis, Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel explores questions about race, immigration, refugees and European identity

Type: Book
Date: 09 Aug 2018

The Impostor

A hero - or a liar? Javier Cercas unravels the real Enric Marco and delves into humankind’s deep and conflicting needs for both fiction and truth

Type: Book
Date: 27 Mar 2017

Compass

Mathias Énard’s immersive, nocturnal, musical journey is a declaration of admiration, a hand reaching out, a bridge of words between West and East

Type: Book
Date: 15 May 2017

The Unseen

On a tiny island off Norway besieged by weather and the sea, the compelling story of one family unfolds, in Roy Jacobsen’s profound and haunting novel

Type: Book
Date: 31 May 2018

Like a Fading Shadow

A stylish blend of fiction, memoir and biography that intertwines assassin James Earl Ray’s last days on the run with author Muñoz Molina’s own past