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...Osip Mandelstam: A Biography by Ralph Dutli, translated by Ben Fowkes (Verso) This life of “legendary literary saint”, Osip Mandelstam, provides a timely reminder of both the long history of repression...
...In Africa is Not a Country (Harvill Secker, April) Dipo Faloyin challenges us to recognise the vast diversity of a continent....
...This fourth book in a series featuring detective Ben Kitto (confronting criminality on the Scilly Isles) is perhaps the most assured yet....
...You can listen to acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner discuss his newest book, The Topeka School, on the FT’s culture podcast Culture Call....
...The Happy Marriage , by Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by André Naffis-Sahely, Melville House, RRP£18.99/$25.95 As he recovers from a stroke, a Moroccan artist reminisces about his decades-long marriage...
...Rebecca Rose Fiction in translation The Happy Marriage, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by André Naffis-Sahely, Melville House, RRP£18.99/$25.95 As he recovers from a stroke, a Moroccan artist reminisces...
...The Laughing Monsters, by Denis Johnson, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$25 “Anarchy. Madness. Things falling apart.”...
...Tell No Tales, by Eva Dolan, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99 Peterborough as a setting for edgy crime fiction?...
...Maria Crawford Crime Tell No Tales, by Eva Dolan, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99 Dolan’s Long Way Home (2014) focused on immigrant workers menaced by ruthless gangmasters....
...… Leaving the Sea, by Ben Marcus, Granta, RRP£16.99/ Knopf, RRP$25.95 American writer Marcus has established himself as a leading practitioner of bleak, experimental fiction....
...It’s an account of semi-fame in the 1980s when Thorn and her partner Ben Watt were propelled into the charts with their restrained, smart songs almost despite themselves....
...Plan D , by Simon Urban, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99, 528 pages A procedural with a twist, set in a Germany where the wall never fell....
...Flame Alphabet , by Ben Marcus, Granta, RRP£16.99 Does it sometimes seem as if your child is speaking a different language?...
...Caroline: A Mystery, by Cornelius Medvei, Harvill Secker, RRP£10, 160 pages Man meets donkey. Man falls – platonically – in love with donkey. Things fall apart....
...Fiction in translation A Palace in the Old Village, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by Linda Coverdale, Arcadia, RRP£7.99, 200 pages “I wouldn’t like to leave my body in a French hole,” says Mohammed,...
...Paul needs the inheritance to stay afloat; his elder brother, Ben, wants to donate it to a Jewish charity, by way of atonement for the sins of his father....
...A Fork in the Road: A Memoir By André Brink Harvill Secker £17.99, 448 pages FT Bookshop price: £14.39 For those who have had the pleasure of reading André Brink’s earlier works, this memoir will provide...
...The Hidden By Tobias Hill Faber £12.99, 368 pages Ben Mercer joins a dig in Sparta, Greece....
...Detective Story By Imre KerteszTranslated by Tim Wilkinson Harvill Secker £12.99, 128 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 Hungarian Nobel laureate Imre Kertesz survived the Nazi death camps only to languish...
...In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic By David Wessel Crown, £30 The Wall Street Journal’s economics editor details the financial crisis of the past 15 months....
...Death at Intervals By José SaramagoTranslated by Margaret Jull Costa Harvill Secker £12.99, 196 pages FT Bookshop price: £10.39 In On Late Style (2006), Edward Said suggested that the approach of death...
...The Fighter: Literary Essays By Tim Parks Harvill Secker £17.99, 304 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 Running through Tim Parks’ new collection of 21 review essays is the idea of literature as a secular...
...SWITZERLAND Imposture By Ben Markovits Faber £10.99, 212 pages FT bookshop price: £8.79 The ingenious third novel from US writer Markovits artfully blends history and fiction....
...Rather than attend a friend’s party you summon one up over supper from Elias Canetti’s catty memoirs of England in the 1940s, Party in the Blitz (Harvill £17.99)....
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