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‘Cómo viajar sin ver’ (‘How to Travel without Seeing’) by Andrés Neuman (Review)
Last week, I described how the first of my blogging resolutions for 2016, that of reading one Anglophone book a month, was broken in the first month of the year. However, I managed to get another of...
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‘God is Round’ by Juan Villoro (Review)
This summer has been one long celebration for the football fan with the Copa America Centenario taking place on one side of the Atlantic and Euro 2016 on the other, and as is often the case, publishers...
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‘Colonel Lágrimas’ by Carlos Fonseca (Review)
Today’s post takes us to another new country for the blog, with a first taste of Puerto Rican fiction. However, if the country (and the writer) is new, the style isn’t, as there are some unmistakable...
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‘Land of Love and Ruins’ by Oddný Eir (Review)
For several years now, I’ve had a soft spot for Icelandic writing, with books by Sjón and Jón Kalman Stefánsson among my favourite discoveries. However, there are several high-profile female Icelandic...
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‘The Wild Book’ by Juan Villoro (Review)
2017 wasn’t the best of reviewing years for my young assistant, Emily. After finishing off the Wildwitch series early in the year, she had a few false starts before burying herself in her school and...
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‘Temple Alley Summer’ by Sachiko Kashiwaba (Review)
While I’m lucky enough to get to read the odd book long before it’s available to the wider public, today’s post is somewhat unusual in that it looks at a work that won’t appear in bookshops for a good...
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‘The House of the Lost on the Cape’ by Sachiko Kashiwaba (Review)
I was hoping to get some help from my little helper, Hayley, for today’s #JanuaryInJapan choice, but I’m afraid that a combination of being busy and getting a little older meant that when she was given...
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