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July 16, 2021

On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt by Ann Heberlein

Translated by Alice Menzies Review by Karen Langley The concept of  “the banality of evil”, coined by philosopher Hannah Arendt, has become famous (some…

March 30, 2021

The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Translated by Philip Boehm Reviewed by Gill Davies This is an important republication of a novel which first appeared eighty years ago under a…

March 5, 2021

Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz

Translated by Rachel Ward Reviewed by Annabel I’ve come late to German ‘Queen of Krimi’ Simone Buchholz’s novels. Hotel Cartagena is the ninth of…

October 6, 2020

Daughters by Lucy Fricke

Translated from the German by Sinéad Crowe Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff In the Translator’s Note at the end of Daughters, Sinéad Crowe writes of…

September 21, 2020

Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner by Francis Nenik

Translated by Katy Derbyshire Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff This September sees the launch of V&Q Books, a brand-new publishing imprint with the mission of…

August 13, 2020

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero by Paulus Hochgatterer

Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff By day, Paulus Hochgatterer is a child psychiatrist – something that absolutely shows…

Artifical Silk Girl Keun
April 25, 2019

The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun

Translated by Kathie von Ankum Reviewed by Harriet If a young woman from money marries an old man because of money and nothing else…

Second Rider Alex Beer
October 18, 2018

The Second Rider by Alex Beer

Translated by Tim Mohr Review by Gill Davies The Second Rider is the first novel in a projected new series by the Austrian writer,…

June 7, 2018

The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers

Translated by Margaret Bettauer Dembo Reviewed by Gill Davies The novel is set in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and was first published in…

Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini
January 16, 2018

Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini

Translated by Jamie Bulloch Reviewed by Terence Jagger We are not in Japan, but Germany; set in the snowy Black Forest, not far from…

The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe
December 5, 2017

The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe by Franziska zu Reventlow

Translated by  James J. Conway Reviewed by Lizzy Siddal Countess Franziska zu Reventlow was born into the German nobility, and lived in the castle at…

Demian Hesse
November 28, 2017

Demian by Hermann Hesse

Translated by W. J. Strachan Reviewed by Karen Langley Is it the destiny of mankind to be pulled constantly back and forth between the…

Walking in Berlin Hessel
April 4, 2017

Walking in Berlin by Franz Hessel

Translated by Amanda DeMarco Reviewed by Rob Spence Berlin is one of my favourite cities, and I have spent a lot of time walking…

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano
March 23, 2017

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano

Translated by John Brownjohn Reviewed by Annabel I’m very glad to have met the irrepressible Auntie Poldi! Our narrator, her beloved nephew, tells us…

Memoirs of a Polar Bear byYoko Tawada
March 21, 2017

Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada

Translated by Susan Bernofsky Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is a rather engaging book, which on the surface is not entirely innocent of the…

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 5, 2016

The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler

Translated by Charlotte Collins Reviewed by Susan Osborne It’s a both a joy and a worry when a second novel appears on the horizon…

October 20, 2016

Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum

Translated by Basil Creighton / revised by Margot Bettauer Dembo Reviewed by Karen Langley Being known as the author of one successful book can…

Two Gentlemen on the Beach
August 24, 2016

Two Gentlemen on the Beach by Michael Köhlmeier

Translated by Ruth Martin Reviewed by Victoria Who knew that Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill were great friends? I had no idea before reading…

June 7, 2016

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

Translated by Robert Vilain Reviewed by Karen Langley Back in 2013, I read a really lovely book called Rilke in Paris, which focused on the…

December 9, 2015

Pushkin Vertigo – titles by Piero Chiara & Leo Perutz

Reviewed by Victoria Pushkin Vertigo, the new crime imprint from Pushkin Press has got off to a flying start with its first batch of…

July 16, 2015

Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller

Translated by Anthea Bell Reviewed by Karen Langley Polish-Jewish author and artist Bruno Schulz lived a short and strange life, culminating in a tragic…

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
April 14, 2015

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane

Translated by Mike Mitchell Reviewed by Harriet The great German novelist Thomas Mann (1875-1955) apparently said that if you had to reduce your library…

Nuns of Sant' Ambrogio Hubert Wolf
April 9, 2015

The Nuns of Sant’ Ambrogio by Hubert Wolf

Translated by Ruth Martin Reviewed by Harriet This is certainly an extraordinary and fascinating book. Written by a celebrated German papal historian, it manages…

January 22, 2015

A Price to Pay by Alex Capus

Translated by John Brownjohn Reviewed by Annabel Alex Capus is a French-Swiss novelist who writes in German. He was born in France and now…

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