Adult Fiction
And How Have You Been? Maria Judite de Carvalho Review
If the title of this book by Maria Judite de Carvalho calls for an answer, it has to be, ‘As a woman, I’ve been frustrated, puzzled by the way life passes me by, with no-one, […]
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Adult Fiction
Twenty Minutes of Silence Hélène Bessette Review
Kate Briggs, translator of Twenty Minutes of Silence and of Hélène Bessette’s first novel Lili is Crying, wrote in an essay for The Yale Review in September 2025: How, why, and under what material circumstances […]
Non Fiction & Memoirs
Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life Samar Yazbek Review
In early 2024, Samar Yazbek found herself in Doha, where more than 2,500 Palestinian survivors of the genocide in Gaza were living alongside their families and receiving desperately needed medical care. Yazbek is a Syrian […]
Adult Fiction
Night Train Xu Zechen Review
Night Train by Xu Zechen is a campus novel with a difference: it’s set in small town China in the present day. Chen Munian is the hapless twenty-six year-old student at the centre of this […]
Adult Fiction
Autobiography of Cotton Cristina Rivera Garza Review
Nick Caistor, author of Mexico Inside Out, explores how Cristina Rivera Garza weaves a personal and political tapestry of Mexico in Autobiography of Cotton just published by And Other Stories. By the 1930s, the years […]
Non Fiction & Memoirs
The Fire Cecilia Sala Review
Italian journalist, Cecilia Sala, belongs to the breed of courageous reporters – many of them women – who travel to some of the most dangerous countries in the world to see for themselves exactly what […]
Adult Fiction
Angst Hélène Cixous Review
Hélène Cixous is best known in the Anglophone world for her 1976 essay The Laugh of the Medusa (Le Rire de la Méduse) — published in English one year later — in which she laid […]
Adult Fiction
City Like Water Dorothy Tse Review
City Like Water by Dorothy Tse out from Fitzcarraldo and translated by Natascha Bruce, is her third book to be translated into English, following the surreal short story collection Snow and Shadow (translated by Nicky […]