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Type: Book
Date: 03 Oct 2023

Crooked Plow

A fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil's poorest region

Type: Book
Date: 30 May 2023

The House on Via Gemito

Narrated against the vivid backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, The House on Via Gemito has established itself as a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature

Type: Book
Date: 03 Aug 2023

Lost on Me

Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity

Type: Book
Date: 19 Sep 2023

A Dictator Calls

A fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and a period of great writers

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jun 2023

Kairos

Kairos is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024. An intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history

Type: Author

Ia Genberg

Swedish author Ia Genberg, born in 1967, began her writing career as a journalist

Type: Feature
Date: 01 Mar 2024

Reading guide: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Whether you’re new to The Remains of the Day or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide

Type: Book
Date: 08 Aug 2023

The Details

In exhilarating, provocative prose, Ia Genberg reveals an intimate and powerful celebration of what it means to be human

Author Kazuo Ishiguro sitting in front of his books.

Type: Feature
Date: 01 Mar 2024

Where to start with Kazuo Ishiguro: a guide to his best books

From unreliable narrators and heartbreaking revelations to ‘the perfect novel’, here is our guide to the 1989 Booker Prize winner’s finest fiction

The Remains of the Day book cover on top of an image of a British manor with grey skies above.

Type: Feature
Date: 01 Mar 2024

Monthly Spotlight: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England