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No and Me
By Delphine de Vigan
Both poignant and funny, this unusual French novel explores homelessness, friendship, love and loss
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Phantoms of Breslau
By Marek Krajewski
...the perfect book for those looking for an alternative to Kurt Wallander
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Portrait of the Mother as a Young Man
By Friedrich Christian Delius
...insightful and convincing, the text does much to encapsulate the mood of this period and of the German public
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The Changeling
By Kenzaburo Oe
The story of a famous novelist and how he keeps a connection alive with his film director friend who has recently killed himself
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Pigeon Post
By Dumitru Tsepeneag
Cheeky and pretentious, Pigeon Post explores the process of writing with aplomb
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The Baker Street Phantom
By Fabrice Bourland
...a great twist on the gold-age crime story, with fantastic characters, brilliant sense of place and a well judged period charm
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Stone in a Landslide
By Maria Barbal
...the story of one woman’s life in all its ordinariness and its extraordinariness
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To the End of the Land
By David Grossman
...a novel of immense power that gives depth and perspective on the human cost of war and warfare
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No-one Loves a Policeman
By Guillermo Orsi
Part detective novel, part political comment on Argentina's economic spiral in 2001, No-one Loves a Policeman is gritty and sprightly throughout
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Heart of Tango
By Elia Barcelo
This latest offering from Elia Barceló weaves together a story of love, heartache, longing and the temptation of the tango
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Heaven and Hell
By Jon Kalman Stefansson
Icelandic tale of storms, death, fishing and the transcience of life...
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The Wedding in Auschwitz
By Erich Hackl
Hackl creates an unusual sense of emotional distance for a Holocaust story while also poignantly illustrating how moments of good or bad luck can alter lives forever
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We, The Drowned
By Carsten Jensen
...ranges across continents and a period of a hundred years, telling the story of three generations of sailors from the Danish port of Marstal, the author’s hometown
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The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...as penetrating and unsettling as the best short stories of Chekhov, James Joyce and Katharine Mansfield
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Bad Intentions
By Karin Fossum
Bad Intentions is an utterly engrossing and darkly compelling mystery that easily confirms Fossum as one of crime writing’s most distinctive voices
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Dust
By Arkady Dragomoshchenko
Unashamedly hyper-intellectual collection of essays by poet and translator Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
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The Lost World
By Patricia Melo
An intelligent fast-paced and murderous road trip across Brazil
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The Ghost Rider
By Ismail Kadare
A gripping gothic mystery based on an Eastern European folk legend
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Broken Glass
By Alain Mabanckou
...a broken-down Congolese former schoolteacher, spends his life in a bar, lamenting his lost marriage, his lost job and his lost life, drowning himself in cheap red wine
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The Water's Edge
By Karin Fossum
This intriguing psychological crime novel will have you gripped from the start, without offering any simple solutions to the moral questions that it raises
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Beside the Sea
By Veronique Olmi
Beautifully written and translated, this is the powerful story of a mother who kills her young children because she simply cannot cope.
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The Sickness
By Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Written in direct and lyrical prose, The Sickness promises to place Tyszka at the front rank of new Latin American writers
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