I first saw Jack Hilton’s name on the crumbling, yellowing sleeve of a book left on a table in Salford’s Working Class Movement Library. The cover grabbed my attention: a skeleton, genuflecting in denim jeans, arms reaching up towards a loaf of bread. I read the first few lines and forgot whatever I’d come to […]

You see, what I am offering you is after all not an ordinary novel. It is a document, an exact picture of what happened. Just imagine that had you been born just one historical moment sooner, this might have been your life and not just something to pick up and read. Fate plays with us […]

Translated fiction is a great way to expand your mind by seeing how other cultures view the world, and what better way in than the classics? Here are some funny, accessible, strange and short books in translation to get you going.