Latest on my website: my annual review: www.themodernnovelblog.com/2025/12/31/a... All the best and good reading in 2026

Latest on my website: Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream about the devastating effect of pesticide pollution on two families tr Megan McDowell from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Iliya Troyanov's The Collector of Worlds about the explorer Richard Burton & his travels shorturl.at/3KUF0 tr William Hobson, from @faberbooks.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Emmanuel Bove's Singular Man about a 1930s Frenchman who does not fit in anywhere https:// Tr.shorturl.at/ZCdzF Tr Dominic Di Bernardi, from The Marlboro Press

Latest on my website: Francesco Aloia's Bloodlines, the tale of a young man related to a famous gangster shorturl.at/pcFZr tr. Graham Anderson fromDedalus Books

Latest on my website: Sarah Hall's Helm, a superb story with a wind as a main character shorturl.at/uMSqN from @faberbooks.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Pablo Martin Sanchez's The Anarchist Who Shared My Name about anarchists in early c20 Spain shorturl.at/Q92LN tr Jeff Diteman from @deepvellum.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Solvej Balles 'On The Calculation Of Volume 3 - more about the woman caught in a time loop shorturl.at/HyCvR tr Sophia Hersi Smith/Jennifer Russell [email protected]

Latest on my website: Touhfat Mouhtare's(The Fire Within about a Comorian woman's struggles against the system & strange forces shorturl.at/Bkcjc tr.Rachel McGill froDedalus Books

atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write shorturl.at/uHbAR tr @annemilanoappel.bsky.social from @newvesselpress.bsky.social

atest on my website: Iida Turpeinen's Beasts of the Seaa about humans & animal extinction shorturl.at/eNY6B tr. (David Hackston) from Maclehose Press

Latest on my website: Jon Fosse's Vaim. about 3 Norwegian men and one womn whose lives entangle shorturl.at/5WNVg. tr. Damion Searls, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket a Pychonesque 1930s transcontinental detective novel shorturl.at/X1vVN

Latest on my website: Chrysoula Georgoula's Call Me Stratos) a novel about the effect of the Greek economic crisis on a Greek man,https://shorturl.at/7M3Z2 tr Marianna Avouri) fromIstros Books

Latest on my website: Krisztina Toth's Reading The Eye of the Monkey, a dystopian novel about modern Hungart & its nasty government shorturl.at/RQ8Y3. Tr, @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, from @sevenstories.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Bora Cosic's My Family’s Role in the World Revolution about a chaotic Serbian family struggling in WW2 shorturl.at/IsF4m trAnn C. Bigelow from @nupress.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Tayib Salih's Season of Migration to the North about a Sudanese man who cannot fit in https:// Trshorturl.at/qreaP Tr Denys Johnson-Davies, from Kegan

atest on my website: Sultan Raev's Castigation, a Kyrgyz novel about 7 escapees from a post-Soviet asylum looking for the Holy Land shorturl.at/6jXw5 trShelley Fairweather-Vega, from @syracuseup.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Amélie Nothomb's So Much the Better about a Belgian family, cats and a wicked grandmother. shorturl.at/CsfXg from Albin Michel

Latest on my website: Dragan Velikić's The Investigator about a Serbian writer exploring his life, that of his family and the murky history of the region shorturl.at/zFNVG tr. Christina PribiCheviCh-Zorić, from Istros Books

atest on my website: Olufemi Terry's Wilderness of Mirrors about a young South African creole man breaking out of his shell shorturl.at/PrKBF fromRestless Books

Latest on my website: Emmanuel Bove's My Friends shorturl.at/lh6iB, about a wounded French WW1 veteran, who just wants a friend shorturl.at/lh6iB tr. Janet Louth from @nybooks.com‬s

Latest on my website: Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai a witty postmodern tale of love, lust & literature shorturl.at/9T30p tr.Megan McDowell [email protected]‬

Latest on my website: Ibrahim Al-Koni's Gold Dust about a man, his camel and a bag of gold dust. shorturl.at/q8I80 tr. Elliott Colla, from @aucpress.bsky.social‬

Latest on my website: Hamid Ismailov' We Computers about AI, French & Persian poetry & love tr Shelley Fairweather-Vega shorturl.at/i5bCF. . [email protected]‬

Latest on my website:Syaman Rapongan's Eyes of the Ocean . a creative autobiography by an ocean-loving man from an island near Taiwan shorturl.at/tWzkB tr. Darryl Sterk, [email protected]‬

Latest on my website @fadizaghmout.bsky.social‬ 's The Man of Middling Height about a society divided by height rather than biological sex shorturl.at/XzS9j tr. Wasan Abdelhaq from @supress1ve.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Kaori Lai's Portraits in White, 3 novellas about life in pre-democracy Taiwan shorturl.at/C073N tr bySylvia Li­Chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt from @columbiaup.bsky.social‬

Latest on my website: Iliya Troyanov's (The Lamentations of Zeno about a glaciologist in Antarctica who cannot cope with human damage to the environment shorturl.at/SNouJ tr Philip Boehm, from @versobooks.bsky.social‬

Latest on my websiteLydie Salvayre's The Lecture, a brilliant satire of a pompous Frenchman giving a lecture on the art of conversation shorturl.at/zpysN tr.Linda Coverdale fro,[email protected]‬

atest on my website: Maylis de Kerangal's Mend the Living about a heart transplant from death of the donor & stories of all involved shorturl.at/n3sXs tr. Jessica Moore fr Maclehose Press

Latest on my website" Lydie Salvayre's The Award, a brilliant satire on labour relations in a car factory shorturl.at/iNfT5 tr. Jane Davey, from your Walls Eight Windows

Latest on my website: Germano Almeida's he Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo a novel from Cape Verde about a man of contradictions whose will opens up a can of worms shorturl.at/UvPZc tr Sheila Faria Glaser, from @ndbooks.bsky.social‬

Latest on my website: György Spiró 'sCaptivity, an epic story of a Jewish-Roman at the beginiing of the 1st millennium shorturl.at/JXgI2 tr. Tim Wilkinson, fr. Restless Books

Latest on my website: peter Stamm's Unformed Landscape about a Norwegian woman trying to find her way shorturl.at/QRHIN tr. Michael Hofmann, from Other Press

Latest on my website.: Wu Jianren'sThe New Story of the Stone, a fururistic updating of the classic Story of the Stone shorturl.at/Apdsa tr. Liz Evans Weber from @ColumbiaUP @columbiaup.bsky.social‬

Latest on my website: Tsering Döndrup's The Red Wind Howls qbout the Chinese takeover of Tibet shorturl.at/wDtF9 tr. Christopher Peacock from @columbiaup.bsky.social‬

Latest on my website : Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Ánima fatua about a half-Cuban, half-Russian woman struggling to fit in shorturl.at/owqL0 tr @robmunb.bsky.social‬ from @amaurea-press.bsky.social

Latest on my website; Yōko Ogawa's Swim with an Elephant Holding a Cat about a boy who becomes a chess player hidden in an automaton shorturl.at/dSoj9 tr Martin Vergne from Actes Sud

Latest on my website: Lydie Salvayre's The Company of Ghosts about a woman still living in the wartime and her modern teenage daughter who are visited by the bailiff shorturl.at/w90yw tr. Christopher Woodall from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social‬

Latest on my website: Maylis de Kerangal'sBirth of a Bridge about the building of a bridge and the people involved shorturl.at/gmTWW Tr Jessica Moore from MacLehose Press

Latest on my website: Akram Aylisli's Farewell, Aylis 3 novellas from Azerbaijan from a writer banned in his country shorturl.at/vBO3p tr. Katherine E Young, fromAcademic Studies Press

atest on my website; Ali Smith's Gliff about a grim future Britain where corporate interests prevail and everyone is watched shorturl.at/C25t2

Latest on my website: Colette's The (Innocent Libertine about a French girl who falls for a gangster & later in life struggles to find happiness shorturl.at/yu9f7 tr Graham Anderson from Dedalus

Latest on my website: Antonio Muñoz Molina'sYour Steps on the Stairs a novel about climate change, Lisbon & solitude shorturl.at/2yTki tr.Curtis Bauer from Other Press

Latest on my website: Alexei Ivanov's The Food Block about a Soviet pioneer camp where vampires masquerading as good communists shorturl.at/lqUKf [email protected], from @glagoslav.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Sylvain Trudel's The Harmattan Winds about 2 orphan boys & their increasingly foolhardy adventures shorturl.at/dSo8D tr. Donald Winkler from @archipelagobks @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Magdalena Blažević's In Late Summer about the Bosnian War told from the victims. perspective, narrated by a dead girl shorturl.at/kXu6j tr Andelka Raguz, from @lindeneditions.bsky.social

atest on my website: José Eduardo Agualusa's (The Living and The Rest. about an African literary conference taking place as the world seems to be ending https//shorturl.at/8xp8S tr. Daniel Hahn, from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Latest on my website:Susan Daitch's The Adjudicator about an investigation into a futuristic test-tube baby case gone wrong shorturl.at/df52p