Book Reviews by Translator

↑A

Anderson, Alison
Cover shows the title with a background reminiscent of a wrougt iron gate
Andrews, Chris
Image shows a green background with white splashes like costellations
Our Riches
Appel, Anne Milano
Like Family
Ash, Irene
A young woman with a freckled face in close up stares out at the reader
Asher, Linda
A man stands behind a woman on a balcony with his arms around her. The image is black and white and the dress is 1960's style

↑B

Bates, Quentin
A figure stands on a promontory on the edge of a body of water looking at an Icelandic style house with red roof. The image is sideways on
A figure in silhoutte stands on the edge of a lava flow with billowing dark grey smoke
Bauer, Curtis
Book cover for Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito. Image shows a young man with a pink book obscuring his face. The book shows the title.
Bell, Anthea
Two line drawn male heads with downcast eyes
Early photograph. A boy with blond hair wears a white suit with a fur edged cape and holds a tricornered white hat. He looks into the camera with an intent gaze and stands in a militaristic pose.
Cover image shows a large image of a fox made up of a mosaic like design with buildings and more foxes
Book cover image of How the soldier repairs the gramophone, image shows a cartoon-like colourful depiction of a wind up old fashioned gramophone with horn
Bird, George
Black and white line drawing of a gangster in a hearse throwing a gold fish into the air out of the passenger window. A woman wearing shades is driving and a parrot sits on the roof.
A black cartoon style penguin on a yellow background
Boehm, Philip
image shows book cover of The Passenger by Ulrich Boschwitz. A man in a suit looks over his shoulder and runs down a station platform in Nazi Germany as a steam train approaches behind him.
Bogin, Magda
Surreal cover illustration by Francisca Alvarez Sanchez depiction a dove and a floating upturned jug as well as crescent moon on top of a giant candlestick
The House of the Spirits
Boyd, David
Cover image shows a light blue background with a gold fish in a free floating balloon
Brock, Geoffrey
Image shows cover of Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. a Jester holding a bottle stands in a spiral of orange peel
Bromfield, Andrew
A late nineteenth century Russian woman in a a red dress in front of a railway station building.
Cover shows a Russian military officer against a background of St Petersburg with a bottle of poison and a woman in a cameo brooch.
Brown, Clarence
A futuristic cityscape with a rockets and helicopters flying across a red sky.
Bussy, Dorothy
A crowd of men and boys in turn of the century dress outside a sandstone building with columns and arched windows

↑C

Camhi, Leslie
Collage effect with a blue cutout hiding the black and white photographic profile of a classically beautiful woman
Carnell, Simon
The Eight Mountains
Chamberlain, Lesley
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Christensen, Carol
Like Water For Chocolate
Christensen, Thomas
Like Water For Chocolate
Clarke, Alan R.
A sunset with hills in the background and a church in silhouette in the foreground, bottom right
Claxton, Patricia
An African landscape in shades of rust, possibly at sunset
Cockrell, Roger
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Colquhoun, Archibald
The Leopard
A heraldic image of a leopard standing on one leg, on a red background
Costa, Margaret Jull
A coffee table dovered with an assortment of items including books, drugs and a glass of possibly port
A blurry image in blues and black of a woman's figure in silhouette walking away from the camera through a park with trees.
A woman with long red dredlocks, wearing a blue full skirt adn no top, sits bending forward with her hands round her ankles.
The Flanders Panel
Cover image shows two men at the stern of a boat looking away from us across a grey, calm ocean.
Cotter, Sean
Book cover for FEM by Magda Carneci, cover image shows a segmented sphere in deep pastel colours containing the book's title
Creagh, Patrick
Detail from the Memento Mori, a painting of mediaeval scene in a formal garden with a fountain and various figures, one playing a lyre.
Detail from The Triumph of Death, a fresco style close up image of a mediaeval man's face looking down.
A naked woman on a green background
A castle on a cliff, a rough sea below and gathering clouds above
Cover image for Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio, image shows the back view of a shirtless boy lying on the ground in tones of blue and grey
Book title has been crossed out and the word "censura" stamped across.
Croft, Jennifer
A Perfect Cemetery
Flights
Cullen, Adam
Book cover for Burning Cities by Kai Aareleid. Image shows a two card tower, the card facing outwards is the five of spades.
Curtis, Howard
A man's hands, handcuffed behind his back. The man is wearing a smart suit and jacket.
Book cover for Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio, image shows a shadowy male figure walking away from us under an archway leading to a traditional Italian piazza.
Image of book cover for A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio, image shows a woman's bare legs from the knee down, she is standing andwearing a pair of red court shoes
Game for Five
The Measure of a Man

↑D

Davidson, Angus
Two Women
Coloured pencil drawing of a minimalist interior with pink armchair, sculpture of a naked torso, a briefcase and the figure of a woman wearing a short purple coat.
Dembo, Margot Bettauer
Pencil/charcoal drawing of a woman's face by Francis Picabia 'Olga' 1930
A man in 1930s dress stands with one arm raised open palmed and the other at his temple in a salute.
Dingley, Jim
A large dark bird on a blue background. A man and a child running away behind thorny red and blue branches.
Dodson, Katrina
Cover image for Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector. Image shows detail from a portrait of Lispector by Giorgio de Chirico
Doherty, David
You Have Me To Love
Doyle, Brian
Cover image for The Square of Revenge by Pieter Aspe, the cover shows a photograph of a Belgian street tinged with orange
Dralyuk, Boris
Cover image of Grey Bees by Andrej Kurkov shows a beekeeper lifting a comb from a hive on a bright golden yellow background

↑E

Edenborg, C/M
Image of book cover 'Hunger House' by C/M Edenborg showing young girl approaching abandoned house from a forest
Edmonds, Rosemary
A 19th century lithograph of a group of cossack men wearing traditional clothing and hats
A Woman with a black hooded cloak with a fur collar in profile looking intently out of shot. BBC tie in cover showing actress Morag Hood as Natasha.
Portrait of an unknown woman by Yaroshenko, a woman dressed in black furs with a lace hat is sitting on a chair with a sneering expression.
Ellenbogen, Eileen
A woman's hand rests on a blue tinged pillow case on a blue tinged background
Emery, Ed
The Angst Ridden Executive book cover showing the back view of a man at a desk, his head in the crosshairs.
Entrekin, Alison
Book cover for Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector. Cover image is a detail from Ariadne by Giorgio de Chirico

↑F

Foote, Paul
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Forsyth, Josephine
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Foulke, Adrienne
Cover image for Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia, image shows a blurry black and white photo of a man behind the wheel of a car
Book cover for The Council of Egypt by Leonardo Sciascia, shows close up photo of mackerel lying side by side.
France, Miranda
Cover shows the head and shoulders of a woman with dark hair in close up with head bowed
Image of book cover for 'All Yours' by Claudia Pineiro
Image of a book cover for the novel 'A Crack in the Wall'
Freeborn, Richard
Detail from On The Banks by Repin showing three figures in late nineteenth century dress, a slodier and an older couple, seated in a rural setting with willow trees and a lake.
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Friedman, Leonard M.
Cover shows Pierre Bonnard's painting of a woman in a wicker chair.

↑G

Gabriel, Philip
A cat with very green eyes walks straight out of the cover
Garnett, Constance
A horizontal pyramid of Russian characters, including a peasants and an orthodox priest.
Black and white close up photographic image of a face in profile
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Glenny, Michael
Soviet era graffiti of a person's head on a stairwell wall and some Russian script.
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Goldstein, Ann
Image of book cover 'The Story of a New Name' by Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
Graves, Lucia
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
The Prisoner of Heaven
The Watcher in the Shadows
The Midnight Palace
The Angel's Game
The Prince of Mist
Gregor, Katherine
The Measure of a Man
Grossman, Edith
An elderly military dictator stands in the foreground with a blurry scene with men and palm trees fades into the background

↑H

Hackston, David
A moonlit road in a forest with tyre tracks
Cover image of The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen, cover shows a huge model rabbit with one broken ear. A man stands in front of it with his back turned to us
Hahn, Daniel
A white chameleon cut out on a blue/yellow/green mosaic effect background
Book cover for Phenotypes by Paulo Scott. Image shows blocks of turquoise and light green with the silhouettes of two boys fighting
The Traitor's Emblem
Hanna, Gillian
An orange cover showing a square municipa type building
Hawkesworth, Celia
Cover image shows a collage made up of fragments of a photo showing a woman's body
Heim, Michael Henry
An open book with the pages cut out and the central section removed, inside which we read the title.
Expressionist/surrealist image of a woman with just a head, bottom and legs, one of which is detached from her body.
Henry, Peter
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Higgins, Aneesa Abbas
Winter in Sokcho cover is in landscape and shows a postcard of a seaside resort overlaid by the title.
Hillier, Caroline
Three cigarettes in a cigarette case with cut outs of part of a woman's face, a key and a length of rope.
Hobson, William
Cover image for The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov, image shows an outstretched hand holding a buring flower against a backdrop of a lake at sunset.
Hofmann, Michael
Cover image of Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada show a black and white photo of 1940s Berlin in the fog
Holden, George
Painting by Manet 'Nana' shows a woman in high heels, short skirt and sleeveless bodice applying makeup.
Hopkins, Gerard
Cover shows a reproduction of Picasso's The War
Hurley, Andrew
Black and white image of a thick old book, open with gothic script, held in a kind of string hammock

↑I

Irving, Douglas
A dark sky and sea with an oldfashioned liner named Norvid

↑J

Janeway, Carol Brown
Black and white photo of a grand wrought iron gate standing open and leading into a tree lined drive
Image of the cover of 'The Reader' by Bernhard Schlink
Jaquette, Elisabeth
classic fitzcarraldo editions cover with a sharm white text on a deep blue background
Jones, Malcolm
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky

↑K

Kilmartin, Terence
A group of well dressed men in suits and top hats on a terrace
Kover, Tina
Book cover for Disoriental by Négar Djavadi shows a colourful phoenix on a purple background

↑L

Lahiri, Jhumpa
Trick
Lancaster, Jordan
A scene from the film adaptation showing the two brothers against a backdrop of a mural depiction Lenin and Stalin and the hammer and sickle.
Landry, Judith
book cover for Catastrophe by Dino Buzzati
Leafgren, Luke
Cover image shows the silhouette of a man's head and shoulders in pink and black, the outlilne filled with storm clouds or perhaps billowing smoke
Leatherbarrow, William
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Liu, Ken
A man walks towards a pyramid structure on what looks like an alien planet
Lloyd-Jones, Antonia
Cover image shows a collage with a lady in early 20th century dress, a grand building with lots of windows and a skull
Lowe-Porter, H. T.
A bare mountainside rises behind a conifer forest. Below a swiss castle with two pointed turrets and many windows approached by a winding road.

↑M

Macintyre, Iona
The Adventures of China Iron
Mackintosh, Fiona
The Adventures of China Iron
Magarshack, David
The Aristocrat at Breakfast by Fedotov.
Malissa, Sam
Image shows cover of Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka
Manguel, Alberto
An Edwardian era black and white photo of a young girl seated sideways on a chair on the front of an old book tied with string.
The Secret Supper
Manheim, Ralph
A yellow wall with a lamp and its shadow
A painting of a boy in a garden looking at a man waring a suit jacket over the fence whose face we can't see. The boy isn't smiling.
Marx-Aveling, Eleanor
A deep blue background with a pattern of cream, gold and grey flowers and leaves.
Matich, Meg
Cover of Quake by Auður Jónsdóttir, shows a small red brain in the centre of the cover
McDermott, Annie
Brickmakers
A representation of a river delta which could also be the branching of veins and arteries
Cover image shows the yellow chalk outline of a dove or pigeon on a grey background
McKendrick, Jamie
Image of book cover 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis' by Giorgio Bassani
McLean, Anne
Photo fit of a man's face with each quarter being a different look
Miles, Sian
Black cover with title in white text and Penguin logo on centre strap
Mitchell, Ian
Image shows book cover of The Pharmacist by Ingrid Noll with a picutre of poison bottles
Mitchell, Mike
Cover image for The Spoke by Friedrich Glauser shows the shadow of a bicycle on a pavement.
A stone tower with crows and storm clouds
Mitchell, Stephen
Image shows a letter I with two greek soldiers fighting with spears
Mohr, Tim
Image of the cover of the novel 'Why we took the car' by Wolfgang Herrndorf
Molinaro, Ursule
Cover shows a blonde girl in a white top with a book on her lap.
Mosbacher, Eric
Fontamara
Moseley, Christopher
Book cover for Pobeda 1946 - A car called victory by Ilmar Taska. Image shows a light coloured car in the foreground against the silhouette of some houses and a church tower.
Murdoch, Brian
All Quiet on the Western Front

↑N

Nabokov, Vladimir
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Nathan, John
A stylised depiction of the sea with blue spirals and white goam in the style of Hokusai
Navasky, Bruno
Book Cover for How do you live by Genzaburo Yoshino. Cover shows the itle and a lone figure dressed in a kimono style outfit with his back to us facing what might be the universe.
Ngidi, Sandile
A colourful image of an African man in a red suit with a briefcase walking up a rural track with straw-roofed round houses and a cow looking enquiringly at him.

↑O

Ostashevsky, Eugene
Book cover for Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, image shows a broken umbrella that resembles a flower in black ink
Owen, D.D.R.
Cover shows and extract from a leaf of the Winchester Bible 1160-1180
Ozawa, Eric
Cartoonlike design of a bookshop with two silhouetted figures through a doorway, two cats and a bicycle

↑P

Pandolfi, Gwenda
Cover shows a blurry images of the same man running in two different directions carrying plates and bottles.
Parks, Tim
The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street by Giorgio de Chirico
Pearson, Roger
Detail from Miners'Wives Carrying Sacks of Coal (1882) Van Gogh
Peden, Margaret Sayers
The Sum of our Days
Black and white image of a colonial style church with a blurry image of a cowboy riding a horse in the foreground.
Petch, Fionn
A wonky piano keyboard, the black keys are blue and yellow, two are shaped like bombs.
Pevear, Richard
a woman in 1940s Russian army uniform
Pontiero, Giovanni
A bald and unadorned human head that looks like it's been moulded from clay, with splashes of bright blue, purple and pink.
Image of the book cover 'Blindness' by José Saramago
Popalzai, Zubair
A blue cover with the edge of a birds wing with white feathers
Powell, Allison Markin
Image of book cover 'The Ten loves of Mr Nishino' by Hiromi Kawakami
Image of cover for 'Strange Weather in Tokyo' by Hiromi Kawakami

↑R

Rabinovitch, Sacha
Cover shows a photograph of Aldo Moro's body in the open boot of the Renault 4 car where he was found.
Rahmani, Mariam
Image of book cover for In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali. Image shows book title falling diagonally down the page like a fault, with a backdrop of built up houses in Tehran superimposed with opium poppies.
Rappolt, Hedwig
Cover shows a blonde girl in a white top with a book on her lap.
Reavy, Geroge
Image of book cover 'Fathers and sons' by Ivan Turgenev
Reid, Petra
A large dark bird on a blue background. A man and a child running away behind thorny red and blue branches.
Reynolds, Siân
An old wall, covered in graffiti with a window. A naked woman emerges from the wall.
Richards, David
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Richards, Gavin
An orange cover showing a square municipa type building
Richards, Jamie
A white cover which reprints the text from the opening of the book
Riddle, Frances
Cover image for Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro, image shows a yellow background with silhouette graphic in bright blue of a woman in profile and a red chair superimosed.
Book cover for The German Room by Carla Maliandi. Cover image is abstract with black, white and red shapes squares on a mustard background
Rix, Len
Photograph of a young woman with a shadow across her face.
Image of book cover 'Abigail' by Magda Szabó showing a girl dressed in white climbing a spiral staircase
Rosenthal, David
Image of book cover of The Time of the doves by Merce Rodoreda
Rosenthal, Raymond
A diagram of a chain of chemical elements.
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Rossetti, Chip
Cover image for No Windmills in Basra, shows the yellow sails of a windmill with line drawings of amimals, birds a lighthouse and a wristwatch
Russell, Alan
A detail from a portrait of his wife by Claude Monet

↑S

Sartarelli, Stephen
cover features a line drawing of a man climbing up the outside of an old fashioned building
A man sits at a restaurant table with food and a bottle of wine with mysterious figures in the middle distance.
A French window with ornate stone surround opens inwards to show the silhouette of a figure playing the violin
Excursion to Tindari
Silhouette drawing of a man with a gun behind a car, the sea and a town with arid hills above.
Cover image of The Shape of Water by Camilleri
Image of book cover 'Hunting Season' by Andrea Camilleri
Image of book cover 'The Brewer of Preston' by Andrea Camilleri
Schapiro, Leonard
A detail from Giuditta e Oloferne by Cristofano Allori, showing a woman's face
Schutt, Will
The Breaking of a Wave
Schwartz, Ros
A steam train leaves a tunnel beneath a high mountain.
Scott-Moncrieff, C.K.
A group of well dressed men in suits and top hats on a terrace
Segre, Erica
The Eight Mountains
Senhouse, Roger
Silhouette of a cat on a fiery sunset background
Sherif, Ann
NP
Shugaar, Antony
Splashes of red, yellow and green as the silhouette of a man walks through a portico
Ferocity
Silver, Katherine
The Postman (Il Postino)
Solski, Waclaw
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Soto, Sonia
A panelled door in a grand room with elaborate cornicing opens inwards to reveal an empty room
Cover shows a carving of the Virgin Mary
Starkie, Walter
Watercolour in reds and oranges of a Spanish knight on a tired-lookin horse followed by a man on a donkey.
Stevens, Olive
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Stone, Will
A stone tower with crows and storm clouds
Strayer, Alison L
The Years
Sutton, Eric
Cover shows a reproduction of Peace by Picasso

↑T

Tancock, Leonard
Detail from L'Absinthe by Degas, a couple sit at a table in a bar, the woman has a drink in front of her and wears a vacant sad expression
Painting of a woman with dark hair sitting at a writing desk with her back to the viewer
Taylor, Sam
Cl;ose up of the front of a woman's shirt, light blue with a white collar and trim, buttoned up to the neck
Teal, Thomas
Image shows a blurry image of a window pane on one side covered with ice crystals
Image shows a seascape in shades of blue and two figures in a small boat
Twilley, Stephen
Book cover for Charlie Chaplin's Last Dance by Fabio Stassi. Image shows Chaplin dancing with cloaked figure of Death who is holding a scythe.

↑V

Volokhonsky, Larissa
a woman in 1940s Russian army uniform

↑W

Weaver, William
If on a winter's night a traveller
Image shows grainy charcoal images of early twentieth century figures.
If on a winter's night a traveller
West, Adrian Nathan
When We Cease to Understand the World
White, Antonia
Silhouette of a cat on a fiery sunset background
Whiteside, Shaun
a skeleton with a violin under its arm steps out from the shape of the letter Q
Wilkinson, Tim
Light blue background with crudely drawn stick figures disappearing into the distance
Detective Story
Wilks, Ronald
An empty hospital bed in front of an open window. Detail from Sleepless night (1903) by Nikolai Romadin
Cover image shows a protrait of Pushkin holding a quill pen byKonchalovsky
Williams, John
A face which is half human, half insect on a blood red and black background
Wilson, Christopher C
Cover has a painting by Giorgio de Chirico showing a porticoed building in from of which a girl runs with a hoop (Melancholy and Mystery of a Street)
Wilson, Katharina M
Cover has a painting by Giorgio de Chirico showing a porticoed building in from of which a girl runs with a hoop (Melancholy and Mystery of a Street)
Wimmer, Natasha
A detail of a painting by Paul Gaugin of two Polynesian girls called When are you getting married?
An American style car superimposed over a map of Mexico
Wojda, Dennis
Image of book cover '566 Frames' by Denis Wojda
Woolf, Stuart
Three men in concentration camp uniform look out at the camera

↑Z

Zucker, Alex
Photograph of a sunburnt child emerging from water.
Zuckerman, Jeffrey
Cover image for Kaya Days by Carl de Souza. Image shows a young woman in balletic pose, walking on a river bed

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