We bring you the latest selection by our panel of experts. This time the panel of experts was formed by Sophie Lewis (Dalkey Archive), Sara Lutyens (Lutyens & Rubinstein Bookshop), Bush Peter Roland (translator), Nicholas Caistor (BCLT), Jason Wilson (University College London) and Pete Ayrton (Serpent’s Tail).
The books have been reviewed by our network of independent readers. For this issue the readers were: Sonia Soto, Christina MacSweeney, Alexander Ibarz, Anella McDermott, Jason Wilson, Kit Maude, Laura McGloughlin, Nick Caistor, Lise Jones, Nelly Hermitant, Miranda France, and Anne McLean.
Art is now within range of even the youngest readers with this magnificent collection of books combining different aspects: information, history, pictures, activities, pop-ups, etc.
Writers Ola Yevguènieva, Véra-Margarita Abansèrev, Vitali Kroptkin, Aleksandr Vòlkov and Iosif Bergxenko were unbeknownst to me before Anastàssia Maxímovna sent me their short stories. To me, they are part in the fictionalization of fiction.
São, a girl who, like everyone in her village, was born to work, decides one day to try and build a better life for herself in Europe.
Isaac is spending the summer studying on his own in the city. His life changes when he meets Yam-Mey in a Chinese restaurant.
Slow movements offer an alternative to the fast pace of modern life: eating, travelling, personal relationships… Everything happens at such a breakneck speed that it’s impossible to get a real taste of things and we get swallowed up by a neurotic
An old friends’ reunion in a mountain lodge gathers a dozen men and women with nothing in common, except an obscure episode in the past in which they were all involved.
This is the story of María Margarita, a girl with the strange gift of telling movies.
The fast-paced, hallucinatory lives of the outsiders in a city torn asunder by violence. A world populated by armed beggar children planning to seek revenge and get rich quick.
La nit de les papallones is a novel that portrays the colourful Barcelona nightlife of the 1970s, and at its centre is Carla, a burlesque dancer who turns heads with her aesthetically dazzling and emancipated performances.
Two strangers meet on a train that has no specific origin or final destination. It is the year 2024 and two thousand wagons make up this enormous iron serpent.