June 22, 2017 Letters From Klara and Other Stories by Tove Jansson Translated by Thomas Teal Reviewed by Kate Gardner This penultimate collection of Finnish literary giant Jansson’s short stories has taken 26 years to be…
June 30, 2016 Ladivine by Marie Ndiaye Translated from French by Jordan Stump Reviewed by Kate Gardner Marie Ndiaye’s latest book could be described as a surrealist family saga, perhaps even…
June 24, 2016 The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson Reviewed by Kate Gardner In many ways this is a conventional take on historical fiction: old lady recounts her youth for her daughter to…
April 19, 2016 Murder at the Manor ed. Martin Edwards Reviewed by Kirsty Gibson I’ve been reading my way through the British Library Crime Classics for some time now, so when Simon gave me…
April 20, 2015 The River by Rumer Godden Reviewed by Kate Gardner This novel (novella really – even bulked out with short stories, an introduction and a preface it’s still barely 200…
April 16, 2015 White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen Translated from Finnish by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah Reviewed by Kate Gardner I’ll warn you from the start: this is not the book…
