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The Polari Prize
Saleem Haddad's Guapa (Europa Editions) has been awarded the Polari First Book Prize 2017 for his "intimate and complex" portrait of gay life in the Arab world.
Elena Ferrante to become Guardian Weekend's new columnist
Author of bestselling Neapolitan novels says she was keen to test herself with the ‘bold, anxious exercise’ of writing regular pieces for the magazine
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The Neapolitan Novels
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Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
2012, pp. 336, £ 12.99A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about... -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name
2013, pp. 480, £ 12.99The Story of a New Name is a sweeping, generous-hearted, and brilliantly realized masterpiece by one of Italy's most important contemporary... -
Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
2014, pp. 400, £ 12.99In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child
2015, pp. 464, £ 12.99This fourth and final of Elena Ferrante's renowned Neapolitan Novels follows the concluding chapter in the moving and turbulent friendship of Elena...
News
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Beyond Words - Live French Literature Festival
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BABA DUNJA'S LAST LOVE shortlisted for Dublin Literary Award
The winner will be announced on Wednesday June 13. -
Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Domenico Starnone
Introducing their latest books, chaired by Claire Armitstead, Books Editor, The Guardian and The Observer.
Recent reviews
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Camilleri, best known for his popular Inspector Montalbano mysteries, offers a vivid historical novel based on the true story of the five Sacco brothers who fought the violence of the Mafia, the treachery of the fascists, and the corruption of the police and courts in 1920s Sicily.— Publishers Weekly, May 22 2018![]()
“The novel pulsates with life but does not shirk from violence….. The gorgeous prose…takes the edge off the relentless turmoil described throughout.”— The Financial Times, May 18 2018![]()
Négar Djavadi’s debut novel Disoriental (Désorientale, 2016) is a wide-ranging story of an Iranian family that finds refuge in France, after being persecuted under the Shah and Khomeini regimes in Iran. At the core of the novel is Kimiâ Sadr, who sits at a fertility clinic...— Helsinki Book Review, May 17 2018![]()
…prose that seduces, shocks and takes the reader on a unique journey, featuring a gallery of larger than life characters from all walks of life in all their splendour and fallibilities. Treat yourself.— Crime Time, May 16 2018![]()
The one thing you can be sure of when reading Alina Bronsky is that she never writes the same novel twice. And that’s probably because her main protagonists are as different as different can be. While Baba Dunja is probably of the same generation as Rosa from The Sharpest...— Lizzy's Literary Life, May 4 2018![]()
omenico Starnone’s fourteenth novel Trick is a case of The Turn of the Screw- driver: the plot hinges on whether one can be found and our narrator, Daniele Mallar- ico, released from an unsettling trap. But it is a different ghostly tale by Henry James – “The Jolly Corner”...— The Times, Apr 23 2018![]()
Schulman’s wonderful, intricate novel (following Three Weeks in December) is set in the palpably near future. When the superstar of the biological research world, 33-year-old Frankie Burke, joins the team at an ape foundation in the Midwest, she thinks things are finally falling...— Publishers Weekly, Apr 23 2018![]()
An old man’s breakfasts and bath times with a wired-up four-year-old, his wrestling for the remote, desperately trying to find some space for himself and his work. Starnone, one of Italy’s most accomplished novelists, knows the territory and delivers it wonderfully.— The Guardian, Apr 19 2018
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World Noir
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Jean-Claude Izzo
Total Chaos
2018, pp. 256, £ 11.99In Jean-Claude Izzo’s “Mediterranean noir” mysteries, the city of Marseilles is explosive, breathtakingly beautiful, and deadly. -
Karin Brynard
Weeping Waters
2018, pp. 512, £ 12.99“The Afrikaans Stieg Larsson.”— Rooi Rose (South Africa) -
Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
Suburra
2017, pp. 528, £ 13.99Fast-paced crime thriller set in Rome: Gomorrah meets House of Cards -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Glass Souls. Moths for Commissario Ricciardi
2017, pp. 416, £ 12.99The eighth entry in Maurizio de Giovanni's internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series. -
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Maurizio de Giovanni
Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
2016, pp. 336, £ 10.99A child is kidnapped. A high-class apartment is burgled. The two crimes seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as “the...