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Sunday’s Children [Buy Direct]

by Ingmar Bergman
Translated by Joan Tate
Original title: Söndagsbarn

Best Intentions [Buy Direct]

by Ingmar Bergman
Translated by Joan Tate
Original title: Godja Viljan

Wedding by the Sea (1996) [Buy Direct]

by Abdelkader Benali
Translated by Susan Massotty
Original title: Bruiloft aan zee

This is a Moroccan tale by an author who, like Hafid Bouazza, hails from North Africa but has been living in the Netherlands for most of his life and writes in Dutch. The story line is relatively straightforward, if a trifle bizarre. (more...)

Swedish Cavalier [Buy Direct]

by Leo Perutz
Translated by J Brownjohn
Original title: Der schwedische Reiter

Saint Peter’s Snow [Buy Direct]

by Leo Perutz
Translated by E Mosbacher
Original title: Sankt Petri-Schnee

Little Apple [Buy Direct]

by Leo Perutz
Translated by J Brownjohn
Original title: Wohin rollst du, Äpfelchen

Leonardo’s Judas [Buy Direct]

by Leo Perutz
Translated by E Mosbacher
Original title: Der Judas des Leonardo

By Night under the Stone Bridge [Buy Direct]

by Leo Perutz
Translated by E Mosbacher
Original title: Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke

Leo Perutz was an immensely popular writer of the 1920s and 30s who was largely forgotten after his enforced emigration (he was Jewish) to Palestine after the Anschluß (the union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938). In the 1970s and 80s he was republished, (more...)

Jacob the Liar [Buy Direct]

by Jurek Becker
Translated by Melvin Kornfeld
Original title: Jakob der Lügner

Becker was a Jewish Pole who settled in East Germany and became a leading author there. Jakob the Liar is set in one of the ghettos created by the Nazis in occupied Poland by stuffing thousands of Jews into a barricaded part of a city with very little food and under various harsh regulations. (more...)

Letters to Sartre [Buy Direct]

by Simone De Beauvoir
Translated by Q Hoare

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