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English version below 1945. Der zehnjährige Josef Ambacher und seine Familie steigen in einen Zug und treten die Reise in eine ungewisse...

We are in the near future. The euro has, for reasons of simplicity, the same value it had in 2022, but everything else is exactly as it...

James Cahill’s debut novel Tiepolo Blue enjoyed quite a bit of excitement before its release. I picked it up after listening to a podcast...

“She thought of Antarctica, the snow and ice and the bodies of dead explorers. Then she thought of hell, and then eternity.” Just before...

Alice Walker’s modern classic The Color Purple portrays the lives and struggles of African American women in the last century, marked by...

English version below Till Kokorda ist fehl am Platz. Das elitäre, private Halbinternat, das er besucht, ist voll von Kinder, die mehr...

The Bell Jar is one of those books that has been sitting on my shelves for ages, that I have always wanted to have read but never ended...

“Once upon a time there were two boys who purposefully misremembered things about their father. It made them feel better if ever they...

Whether we like it or not, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives and social interactions. The technologies have...

It is May, still spring, I‘m sure, and I am ready to discuss the third instalment of Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet. This week, we have...

“The reason churches have so many doors is that people tend to leave churches in groups, in a hurry. It seems people have a lot of...

Set on a thousand acres of land is the Cook family’s farm, sternly ruled by patriarch Larry who teaches his daughters and their husbands...

As a chronic blurb avoider I go into many a book blindly. This is true for Elspeth Barker’s O Caledonia, a 1991 novel I haven’t seen...

"First, I got myself born. A decent crowd was on hand to watch, and they've already given me that much: the worst part of the job was up...

The seasons have changed, from Ali Smith’s Autumn but we are still in contemporary Britain and therefore still in political turmoil. Four...

Dublin, October 7, 2019. Two women wake up to a new day in the old city. Ruth and Pen do not know each other, they are at vastly...

I spent this November deep in the world of crime novels. I read cosy crime mysteries, expansive thrillers, there was even some...

Maggie is 29 years old, working on a PhD she is not actually all that interested in, and now about to be divorced – after only 608 days...

At nine years old, Sylvie meets her one great love at school in Paris: her best friend Andrée. The two girls could hardly be more...

Prepare for the vaguest of reviews - but the secrets of this book cannot be given away. It’s been a few weeks since I have finished...