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(english version below) Andrea Camilleri è l’autore molto amato dei romanzi polizieschi sul commissario Montalbano (28 romanzi ed alcuni...

Yaa Gyasi’s stunning debut novel Homegoing traces the story of a Ghanaian family as it plays out both in the Asante region and in...

Fathers and Sons is Howard Cunnell’s beautiful memoir about growing up, about love and masculinity, about fathers and sons. This short...

The Sellout is a work of biting satire, and you best be ready for it when you open this book. Our protagonist is a young man who grew up...

“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...

Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...

In the 1970s everyone knows The Six. Their songs are played on every radio station, their records and world tours sell out in the blink...

I have finally (!!) read To Kill a Mockingbird, after it had waited on top of my to-be-read list for years. Books with so much history...

What would the world look like, if we didn’t assume the worst of our fellow human beings? If collectively we had a positive, an...

In their powerful and eye-opening manifesto Revolting Prostitutes, Juno Mac and Molly Smith make the point for sex workers’ rights loud...

Ah, this book! This is one that is going to stay with me for a long time. While reading it, I was already looking forward to starting it...

Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...

Poetic and heart-breaking. Those are the first words that come to mind when I think about Toni Morrison’s masterpiece Beloved. I only...

"Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it."

I stumbled upon Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town on some reading list online – and I am so glad I did! Something...

English version below Un Tempo Gentile di Milena Agus è ambientato in un piccolo paese della Sardegna contadina, dimenticata e isolata....

“This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or...

English version below Scherzetto di Domenico Starnone è la storia di un incontro di quattro giorni tra un nonno scontroso e suo nipote di...

“Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have a great deal in common.” Disguised as a gardening book,...

Nina is 32, a successful food writer working on her third book, finally owns property in London – even though it is a bit shabby and has...