Published by Hodder & Stoughton, and Anchor, 1977, 497 pages. “Now his ears were open and he could hear them again, the gathering, ghosts or spirits or maybe the hotel itself, a dreadful funhouse where all the sideshows ended in death... It was a living sound, but not voices, not breath. ... [T]o Danny it …
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Fireflies: Luis Sagasti
Translated from Spanish by Fionn PetchPublished by Charco Press, 2017, 97 pages. Original version published in 2011. “Ever since people raised their heads for the first time to observe the stars and began telling them apart by nothing more than the invisible threads of frozen silver that link them, they also began to tell stories.” …
Exploring Memory: An Interview with Davina Quinlivan
Davina Quinlivan is a British writer and lecturer. Her book Shalimar: A Story of Place and Migration is a mix of memoir, travel and nature writing. Davina is a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, and Writer in Residence with Literature Works/Quay Words and the Royal Devon …
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The Forgotten Promise: Paula Greenlees
Published by Penguin, 2022, 512 pages. Two girls grow up together in 1920s British Malaya: Ella, the daughter of the English owner of a tin mine and his Malayan wife, and Noor, the daughter of the family’s cook. The girls are inseparable, even though Ella’s mother does not seem to approve. The girls swear a …
Swiss Watching—Inside the Land of Milk and Money: Diccon Bewes
Published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2018, 352 pages. What does Switzerland mean to most people? Cows, chocolate, banking, cheese and mountains—these were some of the responses Diccon Bewes got when he put the question to 100 non-Swiss people. Yes, Switzerland is all these things but there is so much more to this country. In his …
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Discretion: Faïza Guène
Translated from French by Sarah ArdizzonePublished by Saqi, 2022, 240 pages. Original version published in 2020. What is it like to uproot yourself from all that is familiar and move to a place that is alien in every way? A different culture, a different language and a different landscape? How do you live in a …
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