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Scottish Noel
Fionn Mac Colla (born Thomas MacDonald – like his friend Hugh McDiarmid he wrote under a different name) was a novelist who wrote intensely but sporadically. His first novel, The Albannach, which Alan...
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The Penguin Modern Classics Book
In 2018 Penguin Classics released an illustrated history of the imprint written by Henry Eliot which coincided with the 80th anniversary of its first published classic, though the venture didn’t...
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Winter Stories
Although Norwegian writer Ingvild Rishoi’s first novel was published this year, she has largely been known as a writer of short stories. Winter Stories was her third collection, originally released in...
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Christmas Stories
George Mackay Brown, whose centenary it is this year, was a talented poet who wrote six novels, including the James Tait Memorial Prize winning The Golden Bird and the Booker short-listed Beside the...
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Books of the Year 2021 Part 1
Although I mainly read translated fiction, this doesn’t mean I entirely avoid contemporary novels in English (though it would be fair to say I haven’t read a wide selection). Here are five of the best...
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Books of the Year 2021 Part 2
For the second part of my ‘Books of the Year’, here are some older books I discovered for the first time: The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe I have always had a soft spot for novels which take the crime genre...
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Books of the Year 2021 Part 3
Finally, here are some newer books in translation which impressed me this year. Dog Island by Philippe Claudel Philippe Claudel is no stranger to either the crime genre (see Broderick’s Report) or the...
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