Our Wives Under the Sea
by Julia Armfield
Think: Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation, but sapphic and romantic. Leah returns home to her wife, Miri, from a deep-sea research mission that was only supposed to last three weeks. But after six agonizi... (Anika)
The Last White Man
by Mohsin Hamid
“One morning Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown.” Kafkaesque from its opening line, Hamid's novel feels simultaneously fantastical and familiar. In this wo... (Anika)
What Feelings Do When No One's Looking
by Tina Oziewicz, illustrated by Aleksandra Zajac, translated by Jennifer Croft
"Courage," "Hate," "Longing," "Trust": I don't whether these feelings translate exactly from their Polish equivalents, but, judging from the irrepressible and distinctive personalities of Aleksandra Z... (Tom)
Winter Love
by Han Suyin
In her long and well-traveled life, Han Suyin, the physician daughter of a Chinese father and a Belgian mother, wrote mostly about Asia, but in 1955 she published this very British gem of a novel, tel... (Tom)