Latest on my website: Sami Tchak's The Continent of Everything and Practically Nothing) a Frenchman studying African ethnology finds it complicated . shorturl.at/pL350 Tr @J_Jeffrey Zuckerman , fromSeagull Books

Latest on my website: A Very Cold Winter about the travails of an extended family in Milan in the cold winter of 1947 shorturl.at/v8tOj Tr Julia Nelsen from @transitbooks.bsky.social

aLatest on my websitAndrei Kurkov's The Lost Soldiers - Russian soldiers disappear from a bathhouse leaving their clothes behind. Our hero [email protected] from @harpercollins.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Can Xue's the Enchanting of Others bout life and literature intertwining shorturl.at/M54Op tr Annelise Finegan [email protected]

Latest on my website: Marlen Haushofer's The Fifth Year about a four year old girl who brings back a life spirit to her family post WWII shorturl.at/wRDqf [email protected] from @ndbooks.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Moacyr Scliair's(The Woman Who Wrote The Bible , a witty satire about a woman who wrote the early parts of the Bible shorturl.at/PSaja tr Heath Wing, from @unmpress.bsky.social

Latest on my website: Antoine Volodine's The Monroe Girls about a post-post-Soviet dystopia where the dead are not always dead shorturl.at/nKuaP tr.Alyson Waters from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Latest on my website:Aanna Albinus' Revolver Christi - a strange gun, a stranger Christian sect and a police officer who finds his family involved more than he thought shorturl.at/2wa0a trRachel Farmer from Sedalus Books

Latest on my website: Syaman Rapongan:'sThe Eyes of the Sky about the Tao people of Taiwan and one man's struggle with a giant fish shorturl.at/qNKSB tr Kyle Shernuk from @columbiaup.bsky.social

Latest on my websiteMaria Stepanova's Disappearing Act about a novelists lost in Europe and finding her way out shorturl.at/kSSkg tr @dugdale_sasha from @FitzcarraldoEds /@NewDirections

Latest on my website Solveig Balle's On the Calculation of Volume 4, more adventuresof people permanently trapped on 18 November shorturl.at/3mvg6 tr Sophia Hersi Smith 7 Jennifer Russell from @ndbooks.bsky.social

Latest on my websiteMaria Stepanova's Disappearing Act about a novelists lost in Europe and finding her way out shorturl.at/kSSkg tr Sasha Dugdale [email protected] @ndbooks.bsky.socials

Latest on my website: Viktor Domontovych's. The Girl with the Teddy Bear, about a traditional Ukrainian. man & a free-spirited young woman shorturl.at/IBYlg tr Steve Komarnyckyjfrom Dedalus Books

ast in my Czech marathon: Bella Bellova's The Lake about a young man looking for his origins while the world goes to hell shorturl.at/rTZqG Tr Alex Zucker, from [email protected]

Latest in my Czech marathon:Iva Pekarkova' s Truck Stop Rainbows about a woman who finds escape in hitchhiking shorturl.at/JTlsC tr David Powelstock [email protected] @ireadvintage.bsky.social

Latest in my Czech marathon: Jiří Weil's Mendelssohn is on the Roof about an awkard statue and the Nazis 'brutality to the Jews in WWII shorturl.at/JlSt5 tr Marie Winn from @harper-collins.bsky.social

Latest in my Czech marathon: Patrik Ourednik's Case Closed, a witty post-modern novel.mocking modern Czechia shorturl.at/9oh5e Tr Alex Zucker, fr @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

atest in my Czech marathon: Jiri Kratochvil's The Vow about an architect who avenges his sister's death at the hands of the State shorturl.at/nnSv7 tr Charles S. Kraszewski, [email protected]

Latest in my Czech marathon: Martin Vopenka's My Brother the Messiah, about a potential Messiah who appears in troubled times 100 years from now shorturl.at/Lsyt1 tr Anna Bryson Gustova, from barbicanpress.bsky.social

Latest in my Czech marathon: Daniela Hodrova's A Kingdom, of Souls, a complex Dantesque novel where the living and the sead cross paths shorturl.at/rTgBc tr.Tatiana Firkusny and Véronique Firkusnyfrom Jantar

Latest in my Czech marathon: Emil Hakl's of Kids and Parents about a father & son drinking around Prague & discussing everything shorturl.at/h1XEz tr Marek Tomin [email protected]

Latest in my Czech marathon: Michal Viewegh's Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia about a writer who tries to educate the daughter of a brothel owner shorturl.at/xriTc tr. A.G. Brain, from by Readers Internation

Latest in my Czech marathon: Vladimir Paral's Catapult about a Czech man who makes a mess of changing his life shorturl.at/mLjL8 tr William Harkins from Catbird Press

Latest in my Czech marathon: Magdalena Platzova's Life After Kafka about Felice Bauer, Kafka's fiancée hhttps://shorturl.at/aYBgm tr @alexzucker.bsky.social fromBellevue Literary Press,

Latest in my Czech marathon: Petra Procházková's Freshta, about a Russian woman who marries an Afghani & lives with his extended family in Kabul PeAfghani l shorturl.at/KL7M7 tr @JuliaSherwood from from Stork Press

Latest in my Czech marathon: Kateřina Tučková's The Last Goddess about a curse on an extended family of Czech faith healers tr Andrew Oakland, frAmazon Crossing

Latest in my Czech marathon:Jan Kresadlo's Gravelarks about a funeral singer blackkmailedby an evil communist https:// tr Václav Pinkava from shorturl.at/hVqGt from @jantarbooks.bsky.social

Latest in my Czech marathon; Pavel Kohout's The White Book about a man who breaks the law of gravity and the consequences of so doing shorturl.at/ncxVu tr Alex Page fr George Braziller

Latest in my Czech marathon: Alexandr Kliment's Living Parallel about an architect who has to choose between exile & home shorturl.at/ec1p3 tr Robert Wechsler from Catbird Press

Latest in my Czech marathon: Pavel Bryzc's , City a kaleidoscopic fiction/non-fiction portrait of thr city of Most, narrated by the city itself shorturl.at/JU5PH, tr Joshua Cohen/arkéta Hofmeisterová from @[email protected]

Latest in my Czech marathon: Zdenek Jirotka's Saturnin , a a classic Czech comic novel with a devious Jeeeves-like valet shorturl.at/INJxI tr Mark Corner, from @karolinumpress.cuni.cz

Latest in my Czech marathon Miloš Urban' s Seven Churches, a Gothic thriller where medieval Prague is the main character shorturl.at/L3vLD Tr Robert Russell , from Peter Owen

First in my Czech marathon: Jiří Gruša's The Questionnaire about a man who tells his colourful life story in a job application shorturl.at/5JJyB tr Peter Kussi [email protected]

Brief intro to my forthcoming Czech marathon; shorturl.at/T9Lhg

Latest on my website: Adolfo Bioy Casares' TheInvention of Morel about a man shipwrecked on a desert island sudden;y joined by a large group of people who cannot see him shorturl.at/NUBUk tr Ruth L.C. Simms [email protected]

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