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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
Our top 5 books of the month kicking off the Autumn take in fiction, foodie explorations, memoir and literary experimentation. [...]
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Top 5 Monthly PicksReading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
This month’s top 5 books range across history, art and human survival; moving across continents, eras and genres. From minute-by-minute [...]
Top 5 Monthly PicksReading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
Reading around the world this month features new releases and updated classics, taking in folklore, international fantasy, dark comedy and [...]
Features
Curated Reading Lists
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 Pt 2 News & Events
Four more books from our three-part tour of this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist, the most multilingual in the prize’s history. In Part One we travelled from Gaza to Stockholm; from Budapest […]
Curated Reading Lists
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 Pt 1 News & Events
Discover the first four titles on this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist. 167 submissions. 37 languages. 13 books that made it through. Here’s the first instalment of our three-part longlist tour. Prizes […]
Spotlight on Publishing
Bridging the Gender Divide: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Spotlight
When a reader strolls into a bookshop, they enter a rich universe of literary imagination, yet historically, great swathes of stories from around the world have been missing from the shelves. While translated literature as […]
Recent Reviews
Adult Fiction
Night of a Thousand Hells Intan Paramaditha Review
Night of a Thousand Hells by Intan Paramaditha is longlisted for this year’s National Book Award for Translated Literature. Indonesia in May 2018. Suicide bombers attack churches and a meeting hall, killing at least ten […]
Adult Fiction
Pity Piety Mercy Antonio Galetta Review
Pity Piety Mercy, the debut novel by young writer Antonio Galetta, comes highly recommended from Italy, where it has won the Premio Campiello Opera Prima and was a finalist for the Premio Italo Calvino. Out […]
Adult Fiction
Adrift in the South Xiao Hai Review
Adrift in the South is a first memoir by Xiao Hai, poet and essayist, and follows his decade working in factories across southern China, culminating in the flourishing arts village Picun. With neat prose and […]
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