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Review: The Dance of the Seagull – Andrea Camilleri
I apologise that my email notification system is not working very well at the moment. While some subscribers are receiving emails for every post, some are receiving none. I have tried and failed to...
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Review: Ljubljana Tales – New Europe Writers
Ljubljana Tales is published by New Europe Writers, a publishing enterprise dedicated to exploring the literary connections between the various European states, with an emphasis on those countries...
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Review: Diary of a Man in Despair – Friedrich Reck
It would be easy to let the title of this book put you off it: Diary of a Man in Despair, does not sound as though it’s going to be an entertaining read, but I share the view of Guy Savage of His...
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Revew: Balzac’s Omelette – Anka Muhlstein
This book ticks a number of boxes for me: - It describes the literary world of Paris in the 19th century; - It homes in on Honore de Balzac, a writer I have been reading for the last two or three...
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Review: From the Fatherland With Love – Ryu Murakami
From the Fatherland With Love is a vast novel (664 pages), written on an epic scale, an alternative reality novel describing the events surrounding the invasion of and economically bankrupt Japan by an...
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Review: Anatomy of a Night – Anna Kim
Anna Kim was born in South Korea but was brought up in Germany where her father was appointed a Professor of Fine Arts. She writes in German and her book Anatomy of a Night is one of the first four...
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Review: I Was Jack Mortimer – Alexander Lernet-Holenia
A new book from Pushkin Press is always welcome and in I Was Jack Mortimer, they have found a gem of a novel, written in 1933 but as fresh as anything written today. The book, a mixture of farce,...
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Review: Tales from the Underworld – Hans Fallada
In recent years their has been a resurgence of interest in the mid-20th century German writer Hans Fallada. His novel Alone in Berlin was an unexpected success when Penguin published a new translation...
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Review: Look Who’s Back – Timur Vermes
So, it’s today’s Germany, and Adolf Hitler finds himself waking up early one afternoon on a patch of undeveloped land. It was relatively quiet; I could not see any enemy aircraft flying overhead, or...
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Review: Death in Pont-Aven – Jean-Luc Bannalec
And what do we have here? The first novel in a crime series by a new French writer, Jean-Luc Bannalec? Well, not quite, for most literary journalists are agreed that M Bannelec is in fact Jörg Bong,...
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