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First Love Riley
February 23, 2017

First Love, by Gwendoline Riley

Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén The New York Times Book Review runs a regular feature called ‘By the Book’, a kind of questionnaire for celebrated…

Pledge durrenmatt
February 16, 2017

The Pledge, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Translated by Joel Agee Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén In a mountainous Swiss canton not far from Zurich, a little girl’s body is found. She…

December 1, 2016

The Promised Land: An American Reading List

Compiled by Eleanor Franzén So, the presidential election of 2016. As with the elections of 2012 and 2008, I will be telling my children…

April 14, 2016

Maresi by Mari Turtschaninoff

Translated by Annie Prime Reviewed by Eleanor Franzen Maresi is thirteen or so. She lives in a fantastical realm on an island called Menos,…

January 27, 2016

Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson

Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén Are there ghosts at either end of life? It’s not uncommon, from time to time, to feel as though everything…

January 20, 2016

The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson

Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén Forgiveness is a word like tiger–there’s footage of it and verifiably it exists but few of us have seen it…

July 29, 2015

The Honours by Tim Clare

Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén It’s rare for any book, let alone a book marketed as literary fiction for adults, to open with a thirteen-year-old…

July 14, 2015

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén Caitlin Doughty was a twenty-three-year-old with a degree in medieval history when she decided to become a mortician. The decision…

April 15, 2015

The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader

Review by Eleanor Franzén Imagine: you’re a woman in England in 1255. With a little bit of flexibility, depending on your father’s annual income, you…

April 9, 2015

The Well by Catherine Chanter

Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén Speculative fiction often works best when it takes one element of our everyday lives and tweaks it, showing us how…

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