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.
January 1945, end of World War II. A young woman wrapped in a heavy military cape that hardly protects her from the cold escapes through Polish and Czech territories.
The brutal murder of a woman and her son, the wife and son of a famous basketball player who used to play for NBA, shakes the everyday life of a quiet Catalan town. No one could have imagined such a thing could happen in their town.
Every day, millions of tons of rubbish are dumped into landfills and driven into perpetual disuse. But when creativity meets resourcefulness in the form of an architect, someone else’s waste can become the next designer’s building material.