Books Reviewed:
A Different Sound; Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers – short story anthology
American Midnight: Tales of the Dark – short story anthology
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries – short story anthology
Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles – short story anthology
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season – short story anthology
The Edinburgh Mystery and Other Tales of Scottish Crime – short story anthology
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Ghosts by César Aira (tr. Chris Andrews)
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
Topkapi – The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames
The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon (tr. by the author)
Don’t Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
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Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz
I Used to be Charming by Eve Babitz
Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
The Incident Report by Martha Baillie
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy Baker
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy (tr. Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen) + an additional post on the politics
Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash
A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray by Dominique Barbéris (tr. John Cullen)
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
The Lowlife by Alexander Baron
That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani (tr. William Weaver)
Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates
Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum (tr. Basil Creighton)
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume
A Little Love, A Little Learning by Nina Bawden
The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán (tr. Paul O’Prey & Lucia Graves)
Cheri by Jo Ann Beard
Rendezvous in Venice by Philippe Beaussant (tr. Paul Buck and Catherine Petit)
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell
Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans
Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti (tr. Nick Caistor)
Insomnia by Marina Benjamin
Murder in the Basement and Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Across the Common by Elizabeth Berridge
Sing Me Who You Are by Elizabeth Berridge
The Story of Stanley Brent by Elizabeth Berridge
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson (tr. Molly Ringwald)
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (tr. Ruth L.C. Simms)
Where There’s Love, There’s Hate by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Ernst Powell)
The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim (tr. Jonathan Wright)
Drowned by Therese Bohman (tr. Marlaine Delargy)
Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac (tr. Geoffrey Sainsbury)
Wave Me Goodbye, Stories of the Second World War, part 1 – edited by Anne Boston; stories by Rose Macaulay, Mollie Panter-Downes, Jean Rhys, Margery Sharp, Elizabeth Taylor
Wave Me Goodbye, Stories of the Second World War, part 2 – edited by Anne Boston; stories by Beryl Bainbridge, Elizabeth Bowen, Olivia Manning, Barbara Pym, Sylvia Townsend Warner
A Nail, A Rose by Madeleine Bourdouxhe
La Femme de Gilles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe (tr. Faith Evans)
Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe (tr. Faith Evans)
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan – the Herbert’s Retreat stories
The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan – the Irish stories
The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan
The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke
A Friend from England by Anita Brookner
A Misalliance by Anita Brookner
A Start in Life by Anita Brookner
Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
Family & Friends by Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Latecomers by Anita Brookner
Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner
Look at Me by Anita Brookner
Providence by Anita Brookner
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
Flesh by Brigid Brophy
The King of a Rainy Country by Brigid Brophy
The Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy
Blitz Spirit by Becky Brown
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
Death in White Pyjamas and Death Knows No Calendar by John Bude
Death in the Tunnel by Miles Burton
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne – Part 1 and Part 2
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Liveforever by Andrés Caicedo (tr. Frank Wynne)
A Horse at Night by Amina Cain
Indelicacy by Amina Cain
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell
These Days by Lucy Caldwell
Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich (tr. Howards Curtis)
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
The Complete Stories by Truman Capote
Crossed Skis by Carol Carnac
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup by J. L. Carr
The Harpole Report by J. L. Carr
The Lost Gallows by John Dickson Carr
The Seat of the Scornful by John Dickson Carr
Till Death Do Us Part by John Dickson Carr
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The High Window by Raymond Chandler
The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze
In the Twilight by Anton Chekhov (tr. Hugh Aplin)
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
Parfums by Philippe Claudel (tr. Euan Cameron)
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
What a Carve Up! / The Winshaw Legacy by Jonathan Coe
Statues in a Garden by Isabel Colegate
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
Chéri by Colette (tr. Roger Senhouse)
Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
Passion and Affect by Laurie Colwin
A Touch of Mistletoe by Barbara Comyns
Mr Fox by Barbara Comyns
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
The House of Dolls by Barbara Comyns
The Skin Chairs by Barbara Comyns
The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyns
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
Brian by Jeremy Cooper
Zenith Hotel by Oscar Coop-Phane (tr. Ros Schwartz)
Academy Street by Mary Costello
The River Capture by Mary Costello
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts
The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan
On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming
Thunderclap by Laura Cumming
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
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A Helping Hand by Celia Dale
Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale
Bird in a Cage by Frédéric Dard (tr. David Bellos)
The Executioner Weeps by Frédéric Dard (tr. David Coward)
Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq (tr. Penny Hueston)
West by Carys Davies
Tension by E. M. Delafield
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
Misunderstanding in Moscow by Simone de Beauvoir (tr. Terry Keefe)
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes (tr. Ann Goldstein)
Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan (tr. George Miller)
Les Belles Amours by Louise de Vilmorin (tr. Francis Wyndham)
Madame de ___ by Louise de Vilmorin (tr. Duff Cooper)
They by Kay Dick
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Run River by Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The White Album by Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Copenhagen Trilogy – Childhood, Youth and Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen (tr. Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman)
The Umbrella (Book One from The Trouble with Happiness) by Tove Ditlevsen (tr. Michael Favala Goldman)
The Trouble with Happiness (Book Two from the above collection) by Tove Ditlevsen (tr. Michael Favala Goldman)
A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
The Breaking Point by Daphne du Maurier
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Inspector Barlach Mysteries by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (tr. by Joel Agee)
The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin (tr. by Aneesa Abbas Higgins)
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin (tr. by Aneesa Abbas Higgins)
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Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute by Lauren Elkin
Happening by Annie Ernaux (tr. Tanya Leslie)
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (tr. Tanya Leslie)
The Years by Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer)
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (tr. Michael Hofmann)
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck (tr. Susan Bernofsky)
Dance Move by Wendy Erskine
Tea is so Intoxicating by Mary Essex
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Trees by Percival Everett
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The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre (tr. Jordan Stump)
Twelve Nights by Urs Faes (tr. Jamie Lee Searle
Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell
Nagasaki by Éric Faye (tr. Emily Boyce)
Space Invaders by Nona Fernandez (tr. Natasha Wimmer)
Voyager by Nona Fernandez (tr. Natasha Wimmer)
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (tr. Ann Goldstein)
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (tr. Ann Goldstein)
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (tr. Ann Goldstein)
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (tr. Ann Goldstein)
How to Cook a Wolf by M. F. K. Fisher
The Gastronomical Me by M. F. K. Fisher
At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
The Widow’s Children by Paula Fox
Things Look Different in the Light by Medardo Fraile (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
Back to Back by Julia Franck (tr. Anthea Bell)
A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau
House of Glass by Hadley Freeman
Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
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Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill
Tristana by Benito Pérez Galdós (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano (tr. Mark Fried)
The Cost of Living (stories from 1951-55) by Mavis Gallant
The Cost of Living (stories from 1956-71) by Mavis Gallant
Thieves and Rascals by Mavis Gallant
A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam
Moon in a Dead Eye by Pascal Garnier (tr. Emily Boyce)
The Front Seat Passenger by Pascal Garnier (tr. Jane Aitken)
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary (tr. John Markham Beach)
An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov (tr. Jodi Daynard)
The Large Door by Jonathan Gibbs
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Angus Davidson)
Family and Borghesia by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Beryl Stockman)
Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Minna Zallman Proctor)
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Frances Frenaye)
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Dick Davis)
The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Frances Frenaye)
Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. D. M. Low)
Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Avril Bardoni)
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
All the Days and Nights by Niven Govinden
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm (tr. Jamie Bulloch)
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After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley
Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley
Free Love by Tessa Hadley
The London Train by Tessa Hadley
The Past by Tessa Hadley
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall
Under the Tripoli Sky by Kamal Ben Hameda (tr. Adriana Hunter)
Craven House by Patrick Hamilton
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Monday Morning by Patrick Hamilton
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
The Stubborn Light of Things by Melissa Harrison
Clouds Over Paris by Felix Hartlaub (tr. Simon Beattie)
The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
The Hireling by L. P. Hartley
Benediction by Kent Haruf
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey
Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún (tr. Sophie Hughes)
In Love by Alfred Hayes
The End of Me by Alfred Hayes
The Girl on the Via Flaminia by Alfred Hayes
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
This Should be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle (tr. Martin Aitken)
Vain Shadow by Jane Hervey
A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith
Carol / The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (tr. Charlotte Barslund)
The Very Dead of Winter by Mary Hocking
Blitz Writing by Inez Holden
There’s No Story There by Inez Holden
Termush by Sven Holm (tr. Sylvia Clayton)
Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby
Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig (tr. Tess Lewis)
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston
After Julius by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Odd Girl Out by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Sea Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Blackbirder by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
American Midnight – Tales of the Dark – edited by Laird Hunt (stories by Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and more)
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Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
Bullfight by Yasushi Inoue (tr. Michael Emmerich)
The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue (tr. Michael Emmerich)
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov (tr. Andrew Bromfield)
Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
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Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
The Dig by Cynan Jones
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Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata (tr. Howard S. Hibbert)
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabta (tr. Edward G. Seidensticker)
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Allison Markin Powell)
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami (tr. Sam Bett and David Boyd)
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (tr. Sam Bett and David Boyd)
Foster by Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
Due to a Death by Mary Kelly
The Spoilt Kill by Mary Kelly
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun (tr. Anthea Bell)
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann)
Gilgi (One of Us) by Irmgard Keun (tr. Geoff Wilkes)
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun (tr. by Kathie von Ankum)
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard (tr. Don Bartlett)
A Man in Love (My Struggle: Book 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard (tr. Don Bartlett)
Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything by Daniela Krien (tr. Jamie Bulloch)
The Adventures of Sindbad by Gyula Krúdy (tr. George Szirtes)
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Nada by Carmen Laforet (tr. Edith Grossman)
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (tr. Ann Goldstein)
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri (tr. by the author)
Funny Weather by Olivia Laing
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
Jill by Philip Larkin
Passing by Nella Larsen
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
Mona Lisa by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (tr.Ignat Avsey)
Real Estate by Deborah Levy
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Three Summers by Margartia Liberaki (tr. Karen Van Dyck
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector (tr. Alison Entrekin)
Heat Wave by Penelope Lively
Murder’s a Swine by Nap Lombard
Ten by Andrej Longo (tr. Howard Curtis)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Checkmate to Murder by E. C. R. Lorac
Crook O’ Lune by E. C. R. Lorac
Fell Murder by E. C. R. Lorac
Fire in the Thatch by E. C. R. Lorac
Post After Post-Mortem by E. C. R. Lorac
These Names Make Clues by E. C. R. Lorac
Two-Way Murder by E. C. R. Lorac
Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli (tr. Christina MacSweeney)
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Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay
Personal Pleasures by Rose Macaulay
Potterism by Rose Macaulay
The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer book 2) by Ross Macdonald
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer book 3) by Ross Macdonald
The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer book 4) by Ross Macdonald
Find a Victim (Lew Archer book 5) by Ross Macdonald
The Barbarous Coast (Lew Archer book 6) by Ross Macdonald
The Doomsters by Ross Macdonald
The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald
Bitten by the Tarantula by Julian Maclaran-Ross
Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross
Circles & Squares – The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists by Caroline Maclean
The Colony by Audrey Magee
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andreï Makine (tr. Geoffrey Strachan)
Game for Five by Marco Malvaldi (tr. Howard Curtis)
The Art of Killing Well by Marco Malvaldi (tr. Howard Curtis)
Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette
School for Love by Olivia Manning
The Doves of Venus by Olivia Manning
The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy, book 1) by Olivia Manning – part 1
The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy, book 1) by Olivia Manning – part 2
The Spoilt City (Balkan Trilogy, book 2) by Olivia Manning
Friends and Heroes (Balkan Trilogy, book 3) by Olivia Manning
Escape by Dominique Manotti (tr. Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz)
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
A Heart So White by Javier Marías (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
All Souls by Javier Marías (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
The Infatuations by Javier Marías (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
Second Sight by Adam Mars-Jones
The Island by Ana María Matute (tr. Laura Lonsdale)
A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride
Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
Tea at Four O’Clock by Janet McNeill
Testing the Current by William McPherson
A Stranger in My Grave by Margaret Millar
The Listening Walls by Margaret Millar
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
One Year’s Time by Angela Milne
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli (tr. Sam Taylor)
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Villa Triste by Patrick Modiano (tr. John Cullen)
The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
Arturo’s Island by Elsa Morante (tr. Ann Goldstein)
Agostino by Alberto Moravia (tr. Michael F. Moore)
Divertimento 1889 by Guido Morselli (tr. Hugh Shankland)
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Saturday Lunch with the Brownings by Penelope Mortimer
The Home by Penelope Mortimer
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata (tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
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Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (tr. Rosalind Harvey)
The Things We Don’t Do by Andrés Neuman (tr. Caistor & L Garcia)
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A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien
Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo (tr. Daniel Balderston)
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa (tr. Stephen Snyder)
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (tr. Stephen Snyder)
Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (tr. Brian FitzGibbon)
White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen (tr. Emily & Fleur Jeremiah)
Business as Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford
A Chill in the Air by Iris Origo
War in Val d’Orcia by Iris Origo
Motherwell by Deborah Orr
Love by Hanne Ørstavik (tr. Martin Aitken)
The Blue Room by Hanne Ørstavik (tr. Deborah Dawkin)
Evening Descends Upon the Hills by Anna Maria Ortese (tr. Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee)
After Claude by Iris Owens
Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü (tr. Maureen Freely)
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Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes
One Fine Day by Mollie-Panter-Downes
Broken Greek by Pete Paphides
Big Blonde by Dorothy Parker
The Shadowy Third by Julia Parry
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (tr. W.J. Strachan)
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
More Was Lost by Eleanor Perényi
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle)
Lanny by Max Porter
A Question of Upbringing – A Dance to the Music of Time, book 1 by Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time, books 2-4 by Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time, books 5-9 by Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time, books 10-12 by Anthony Powell
The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
A Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
Civil to Strangers by Barbara Pym
Civil to Strangers – the unfinished novels and short stories by Barbara Pym
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann (tr. Lucy Jones)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (tr. Brian Murdoch)
The Evenings by Gerard Reve (tr. Sam Garrett)
Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (tr. Chris Andrews)
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
The Left Bank and Other Stories by Jean Rhys
Tigers Are Better-Looking by Jean Rhys
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore)
Tomorrow by Elisabeth Russell Taylor
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The Tunnel by Ernesto Sábato (tr. Margaret Sayers Peden)
The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri (tr. John Cullen)
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan (tr. Irene Ash)
Aimez-vous Brahms… by Françoise Sagan (tr. Peter Wiles)
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (tr. Heather Lloyd) + additional thoughts on the translation
Improper Stories by Saki
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Last Night by James Salter
Meeting in Positano by Golardia Sapineza (tr. Brian Robert Moore)
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia (tr. Adrienne Foulke)
The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia (tr. Avril Bardoni)
Vienna Tales (short story anthology) – Schnitzler, Stifter, Roth, and more (tr. Deborah Holmes)
Transit by Anna Seghers (tr. Margo Bettauer Dembo)
The Fortnight in September by R. C. Sherriff
War Among Ladies by Eleanor Scott
Red Lights by Georges Simenon (tr. Norman Denny)
The Krull House by Georges Simenon (tr. Howard Curtis)
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon (tr. Howard Curtis)
The Venice Train by Georges Simenon (tr. Ros Schwartz)
The Widow by Georges Simenon (tr. John Petrie)
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon (tr. Marc Romano and Lawrence G Blochman)
How to be both by Ali Smith
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Gate by Natsume Söseki (tr. William F. Sibley)
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Symposium by Muriel Spark
The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn – part 1, some overall thoughts
The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn – part 2, the individual books
Trick by Domenico Starnone (tr. Jhumpa Lahiri)
The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson (tr. Philip Roughton)
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Winter Love by Han Suyin
Iza’s Ballad by Magda Szabó (tr. George Szirtes)
Katalin Street by Magda Szabó (tr. Len Rix)
Love in a Bottle by Antal Szerb (tr. Len Rix)
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A Dedicated Man by Elizabeth Taylor
A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
At Mrs Lippincote’s by Elizabeth Taylor
A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
Hester Lilly by Elizabeth Taylor
In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
The Blush by Elizabeth Taylor
The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor
The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
The Wedding Group by Elizabeth Taylor
Rasputin and Other Ironies by Teffi (tr. Robert & Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France and Anne Marie Jackson)
Subtly Worded by Teffi (tr. Anne Marie Jackson)
High Rising by Angela Thirkell
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
The Birds of the Air by Alice Thomas Ellis
The Grifters by Jim Thompson
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín (1) – Nora
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín (2) – life in a small town in Ireland
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Antonia Lloyd Jones)
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (tr. Archibald Colquhoun)
The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (tr. Stephen Twilley)
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Two Thousand Million Man-Power by Gertrude Trevelyan
Love and Summer by William Trevor
Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel by William Trevor
Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor
Other People’s Worlds by William Trevor
The Boarding-House by William Trevor
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
The Love Department by William Trevor
The Old Boys by William Trevor
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev by William Trevor
Christmas at Thompson Hall & Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima (tr. Geraldine Harcourt)
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima (tr. Geraldine Harcourt)
The Shooting Gallery by Yuko Tsushima (tr. Geraldine Harcourt)
Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima (tr. Geraldine Harcourt)
Mamma by Diana Tutton
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The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke (tr. Jamie Bulloch)
Spring Night by Tarjei Vesaas (tr. Elizabeth Rokkan)
Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas (tr. Jonathan Dunne)
Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas (tr. Anne McLean)
Father by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim
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Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
My First Wife by Jakob Wassermann (tr. Michael Hofmann)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
Summer by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Children by Edith Wharton
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Young Accomplice by Benjamin Wood
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A Good School by Richard Yates
A Special Providence by Richard Yates
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Liars in Love by Richard Yates
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto (tr. Asa Yoneda)
Chatterton Square by E. H. Young
Miss Mole by E. H. Young
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In Italy by Cynthia Zarin
The Burning of the World by Béla Zombory-Moldován (tr. Peter Zombory-Moldován)
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig (tr. Anthea Bell)
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig (tr. Anthea Bell)
JacquiWine's Journal 
What a useful list! What a hammering my local library’s ordering system is going to take . . .
Thank you! And your excellent essays on films are prompting me to revisit the classics…
That’s an impressive list in just a few short months – congratulations!
Cheers, Lisa! I had a bit of a head start with that stack of IFFP guest reviews…