Speculative fiction from Finland, with strange finds on a 19th century anthropological mission
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Book review: Between Two Worlds by Miriam Tlali (South Africa)
Ground-breaking critique of apartheid by a black woman writer
Book review – Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam by Julia Blackburn
A mixture of memoir and historical study, reflecting on what is lost – and what remains
Book Review: Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton (UK)
I read a very enjoyable non-fiction book by Polly Barton, who is a translator of literature from Japanese, which was published by the wonderful Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2021. Fitzcarraldo produce such beautiful books, that I’d be tempted to buy them for home decor reasons alone! Fifty Sounds combines three of my interests: memoir, language acquisition …
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Body Kintsugi by Senka Marić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
A Bosnian novel of sickness and recovery informed by personal experience
Passing by Nella Larsen (USA)
A 1929 novel focusing on ambiguous racial identity, that has surely inspired Brit Bennett’s bestselling 2020 novel ‘The Vanishing Half’
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
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