Two bantering Irish criminals contemplate life while waiting at a Spanish ferry port
Tag Archives: books
We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (Netherlands)
A dystopian Dutch romance set in the world of content moderation
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood and three other mini book reviews
Three mini reviews of the latest in my 20 books of summer
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
Love, trauma and memory in Sierra Leone
They by Kay Dick (UK)
Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction
Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)
Contemporary short stories from Ukraine
Claudine’s House by Colette (France)
Colette’s evocative memoir of a rural, animal-laden and loving French childhood
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937, Russia)
Speculative Russian dystopia from the 1920s
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)
Genre-defying exploration of a Jewish family in Soviet Russia
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (USA)
Women’s Prize shortlister set in and around a haunted bookshop
Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 