Johana Gustawsson: Yule Island
Yule Island (2023, tr: David Warriner, 2023), is Johana Gustawsson’s first novel set wholly in Sweden since relocating there from her native France. Taking on Nordic mythology to furnish its…
Jenny Kiefer: This Wretched Valley
Jenny Kiefer’s debut, This Wretched Valley (2024) is inspired by the Dyatlov Pass Incident but moves the underlying event away from the snowy Urals to the Kentucky woodlands. Starting in…
Bella Bathurst: The Lighthouse Stevensons
Between 1790 and 1940, eight members of the Stevenson dynasty were responsible for the design and construction of almost a hundred lighthouses that, to this day, still operate around the…
Robert Drewe: The Bodysurfers
Three generations of the Lang family take up many of the stories in Robert Drewe’s The Bodysurfers (1983), a work that leans in on the men, their faltering relationships, and…
Samanta Schweblin: Seven Empty Houses
Boxes, clothes, and the dead form a common thread in the stories of Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses (2015, tr: Megan McDowell, 2022) which invite us into moments of the…
Jennifer Clement: A True Story Based on Lies
Women are at the heart of Jennifer Clement’s 2001 fiction debut, A True Story Based on Lies, which looks at the upstairs downstairs dynamics in wealthy Mexico City. Our gateway…
Jon Fosse: Aliss at the Fire
Jon Fosse’s Aliss at the Fire (2003, tr: Damion Searls, 2010) is as much a showcase of his talent as dramatist as well as writer of prose. His characters converse…
Mike Ashley (ed): From the Depths
From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea (2018, ed: Mike Ashley) heralded the start of a book series that, seven years later, is showing no signs of…
Jon Fosse: Morning and Evening
Life is what happens in the moments between birth and death, and there’s much mystery found in this fleeting gap in Jon Fosse’s Morning and Evening (2000, tr: Damion Searls,…
Petina Gappah: An Elegy for Easterly
The thirteen stories that comprise Petina Gappah’s debut collection, An Elegy for Easterly (2009), examine Zimbabwe under the regime of Robert Mugabe. While that experience may not be comparable to…