‘The delightful first title in a new collaboration between Pushkin Press and Channel 4’s Walter Presents‘– The Mystery of Henri Pick [ About the Book ] In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor…
‘From the most translated Chinese novelist of our time‘– The Message I am delighted to be joining the tour for The Message by Mai Jia. Translated by Olivia Milburn and published with Apollo (HoZ imprint) The Message is described as ‘a dazzling literary thriller set in Japan-occupied China‘ I have an extract to share with…
‘The German Number One Bestseller’– Mexico Street [ About the Book ] Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect. Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched.…
‘A writer is being buried today. It’s like a final demonstration: an unexpected crowd – silent, respectful and anarchic – is blocking the streets and the boulevards around the Montparnasse cemetery……How absurd to pay homage to a man who was wrong about almost everything, was constantly misled, and who put his talents into defending the…
A Nail, A Rose is a collection of ‘sharp, elegant stories of women’s inner lives by the rediscovered Belgian author Madeleine Bourdouxhe‘ [ About the Book ] These are stories of longing and dissatisfaction, of daily life ruptured by strange currents of feeling. A woman, wandering alone and heartbroken, is first attacked and then romantically…
Winner of the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize and a number one bestseller, A Modern Family is the English debut by Helga Flatland. Described as the Norwegian Anne Tyler, Helga Flatland made her literary debut in 2010, with this, A Modern Family, being her fifth book. I am delighted to be joining Helga Flatland and Orenda Books…
He must hunt her down. Kill her. Destroy her . . . Sacrifice is the latest novel from German author Hanna Winter. Hanna writes under a pseudonym, her real name being Eva Rehberger. A successful catwalk and fashion model in her native Germany, she now has many successful novels to her name. Published by Manilla, a new imprint of…
‘Who decides what is important and what is superfluous? All I know is that the more details I give you the more it seems like I’m leaving out’ Everything I Don’t Remember is the fourth novel by Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri. In 2015, it was awarded Swedan’s August Prize, one of the most celebrated and…