The British author tells us why he chose the fearless Persis Wadia as his heroine. The National, August 2020 Last year British crime writer Vaseem Khan was deep into another one of his enjoyably twisty narratives when […]
The author manages to perfectly toe the line between trauma and comedy in a searing coming-of-age tale set in a post-civil-war city. The National, August 2020 The timing is staggering. Only a few paragraphs into Naji […]
Swedish journalist Eva Nour’s debut hones in on the human cost of a tangled, intractable conflict. The National, August 2020 One warm, moonlit night in Homs, a young photographer held his breath and stepped out […]
The Observer, August 2020 An explosive Tipperary-set thriller, a Booker-longlisted tale of women at war in Ethiopia, and a fascinating ‘biography’ of the internet Strange FlowersDonal Ryan Transworld, £12.99, pp240 A young woman goes missing […]
i newspaper, February 2020 The research took years. Maaza Mengiste even learnt Italian to help her plot The Shadow King, a remarkable tale of how Ethiopia repelled the Italian invasion in 1935. “It was an […]