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...Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop, translated by Sam Taylor (Pushkin Press) There are stories within stories in this historical novel about the real-life 18th-century French botanist, Michel Adanson...
...Abyss by Pilar Quintana, translated by Lisa Dillman (World Editions) An unsettling examination of family life set in Cali, Colombia, by the prizewinning author of The Bitch....
...Diary of a Voidby Emi Yagi, translated by David Boyd and Lucy North, Harvill Secker £12.99 Ms Shibata, a company employee burdened with the menial tasks her male colleagues consider to be a woman’s work...
...During my residency, the Prado’s one Caravaggio was being restored: a depiction of David with the head of Goliath from 1600, in which David looms largest, his knee resting on a felled Goliath as he grabs...
...All The Lovers In The Nightby Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd, Picador £14.99 Catching a glimpse of her reflection in a window, Fuyuko, a freelance proofreader in her thirties who...
...More Than I Love My Lifeby David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen, Jonathan Cape £18.99/Knopf Doubleday $27 “That’s my thing in the world: loving one person who is not easy to love,” says Rafael, father...
...At Night All Blood Is Blackby David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis, Pushkin Press £14.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux $25 The recently announced winner of this year’s International Man Booker Prize tells...
...Will , by Jeroen Olyslaegers, translated by David Colmer, Pushkin, RRP£14.99 Set in 1941, in Nazi-occupied Antwerp, the first novel by the Flemish author to be translated into English tells the story of...
...The Peace Machine , by Özgür Mumcu, translated by Mark David Wyers, Pushkin Press, RRP£12.99 What if technology allowed humans to achieve world peace — at the expense of our freedom?...
...A Horse Walks into a Bar , by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen, Jonathan Cape, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP$25.95 “I’m a bottom-feeder, am I not?”...
...“When it starts to get dark, if you’re still not at the top, we may have to ask you to stop,” explained our British guide, David Hall. “These roads can be dangerous to ride after dark.”...
...June, by Gerbrand Bakker, translated by David Colmer, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99 On the same day in 1969 when the Netherlands’ Queen Juliana visits a Dutch village, a reckless driver runs over a local girl...
...Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, by David Kilcullen, Hurst, RRP£9.99 David Kilcullen, an Australian military officer and academic, was deeply involved in the US counterinsurgency...
...Falling Out of Time, by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen, Jonathan Cape, RRP£14.99/ Knopf, RRP$24.95 Part narrative poem, part play, part novel, Grossman’s poignant study of bereavement and loss...
...Angel Gurría-Quintana Literary non-fiction Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, by Jonathan Bate, William Collins, RRP£30/Harper, RRP$40 Bate’s book started out as a “literary life”, bolstered by huge amounts...
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana Poetry Breezeway, by John Ashbery, Carcanet, RRP£9.99 / Ecco, RRP$22.99 Ashbery’s thoughts make leaps to the extent that one wonders whether he has been playing with some randomising...
...… Fiction in Translation by Ángel Gurría-Quintana The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, by Jérôme Ferrari, translated by Geoffrey Strachan, Maclehose Press, RRP£12.99 Winner of France’s Goncourt prize, Ferrari...
...His performance prompted a flood of speculation – furiously denied by Froome and David Brailsford, the Sky team director – that he was yet another example of tour cyclists who were doped....
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana ——————————————- POETRY Moontide, by Niall Campbell, Bloodaxe, RRP£9.95/$26 In his understated debut collection, Campbell, who spent his childhood on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides...
...Selections by Ángel Gurría-Quintana … POETRY Red Doc> , by Anne Carson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£12/Knopf, RRP$24.95 In her follow-up to Autobiography of Red , Carson renames her winged hero Geryon as “G”...
...The move, confirmed by parliamentary officials, makes it increasingly unlikely David Cameron, the prime minister, will avoid an awkward U-turn in announcing the UK will buy the Stovl B variant of the Joint...
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...His guiding spirit, we learn, was American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, who wrote that walking “is not about getting somewhere, but being somewhere”....
...Night, by David Harsent, Faber, RRP£9.99 Silky evocation of the liminal world between night and day, conscious and subconscious, with dreams half-remembered....
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