Elena Ferrante’s Recommended Reading on Bookshop.org
Stories of women told by women: Elena Ferrante, the New York Times bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults, recommends 40 twentieth-century female writers.
Valérie Perrin
Europa Editions UK to launch international number 1 bestseller and unforgettable novel Fresh Water for Flowers
Europa Editions UK is to work with Midas PR to launch the paperback of international sensation Fresh Water for Flowers by award-winning author Valérie Perrin in June.
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Europa Editions UK is to work with Midas PR to launch the paperback of international sensation Fresh Water for Flowers by award-winning author Valérie Perrin in June.
Elena Ferrante’s international bestseller The Lying Life of Adults will be one of BBC2’s featured big books of 2020 for the new series of Between the Covers! More news coming soon.
“I started as a normal reader and ended up willing to give her a kidney.”
— LRB, Feb 18 2021
‘Writer and translator in powerful harmony’ – Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri wins John Florio Prize for translation Author takes the 2020 John Florio Prize for her ‘exceptional’ and ‘agile’ translation from Italian of Trick by Domenico Starnone, in the...
— The Society of Authors, Feb 12 2021
“The build-up to the final revelation is outstanding, and after I’d finished reading I was left thinking about it for days. This is a story of ordinary lives and extraordinary pain, and a superb English-language debut.”
— Translating Women, Feb 11 2021
“A spare and profound story, beautifully translated.”
— Waterstones, Feb 11 2021
Screenwriter and novelist Ben Hopkins talks to Tom about his ambitious new novel, Cathedral. It's a portrait of the construction of the medieval period's greatest buildings, featuring a cast of intriguing characters all vying for power - from the bishop to his treasurer to local...
— BBC Radio 4, Feb 11 2021
“The biggest show Netflix has in the pipeline in Italy is Elena Ferrante adaptation “The Lying Life of Adults,” being produced by Domenico Procacci’s Fandango, which has a planned 2022 delivery date.”
— Variety, Feb 9 2021
"Maki Kashimada’s Touring the Land of the Dead sounds intriguing with its story of a woman married beneath her social station according to her mother and brother, both of whom seem unable to reconcile themselves to their own loss of status.
This new instalment in Maurizio de Giovanni’s bestselling “Bastards of Pizzofalcone” series unfolds during the crisp beginning of April in contemporary...