A slow year for reading new books as I decided to revisit ones I’ve loved over the years like Possession by A.S. Byatt, but my favourite book of 2024 is Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto (tr. Beth Cary), and close by is Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon (tr. Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn). But the rowdiest by a mile was Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
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Translated by Beth CaryA thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo ExpressTokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man’s body is found on the tracks. With only two…
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Translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel HahnRodrigo Blanco Calderón has established himself as one of the great voices of Latin American literature with his debut novel The Night, and his…
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Translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesIn September 1913, Mieczyslaw Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its…
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'Holy smokes this novel is an absolute cut above! Exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a new…
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The award-winning author of Gods of Jade and Shadow (one of the 100 best fantasy novels of all time, TIME magazine) returns with a mesmerising feminist Gothic fantasy, in which a glamorous young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a…
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Translated by Bryan KaretnykAn old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi arrived than…
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From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist, a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish…
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