While the Gods Were Sleeping is a novel about the magnitude and impact of the First World War, the recollections of which are recorded in the notebooks of the elderly Helena. The young Helena is sent
'What makes me saddest, is the double silence of her being. Language has packed its bags and jumped over the railing of the capsizing ship, but there is also another silence in her or around her. I ca
Written from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother,Marcel is a striking debut novel describing the vivid history of a family in a Flemish village. The mysterious death
My Fellow Skin is a beautiful, affectionate novel told from the point of view of an impressionable young boy. The novel opens before the boy can talk, and we follow Anton’s first, tentative steps on t
A wonderful, balanced novel about how the remains of the past reverberate in the present,Shutterspeed sensitively and delicately describes the powerful emotions which lie just beneath the surface of t
While the Gods Were Sleeping is a novel about the magnitude and impact of the First World War, the recollections of which are recorded in the notebooks of the elderly Helena. The young Helena is sent
In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Gr
