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✨ Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski
Translated from Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
Teenage friends race through drugs, violence, and fast choices with no brakes. One of them dreams of escape, but the streets have other plans. A raw, urgent portrait of youth on the edge.
🧵 4/4
Translated from Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
Teenage friends race through drugs, violence, and fast choices with no brakes. One of them dreams of escape, but the streets have other plans. A raw, urgent portrait of youth on the edge.
🧵 4/4
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
✨ Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski
Translated from Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
Teenage friends race through drugs, violence, and fast choices with no brakes. One of them dreams of escape, but the streets have other plans. A raw, urgent portrait of youth on the edge.
🧵 4/4
Translated from Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
Teenage friends race through drugs, violence, and fast choices with no brakes. One of them dreams of escape, but the streets have other plans. A raw, urgent portrait of youth on the edge.
🧵 4/4
✨ The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
Plagued by exhaustion and unexplained injuries, Iðunn suspects something is happening while she sleeps. A chilling novel about being disbelieved, bodily fear and losing control.
🧵 3/4
Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
Plagued by exhaustion and unexplained injuries, Iðunn suspects something is happening while she sleeps. A chilling novel about being disbelieved, bodily fear and losing control.
🧵 3/4
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
✨ The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
Plagued by exhaustion and unexplained injuries, Iðunn suspects something is happening while she sleeps. A chilling novel about being disbelieved, bodily fear and losing control.
🧵 3/4
Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
Plagued by exhaustion and unexplained injuries, Iðunn suspects something is happening while she sleeps. A chilling novel about being disbelieved, bodily fear and losing control.
🧵 3/4
✨ The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Rämö
Translated from Finnish by Kristian London
Detective Hildur and her partner investigate a murder half-buried by an avalanche. As they pursue a killer through secrets and silence, both are forced to confront their own pasts.
🧵 2/4
Translated from Finnish by Kristian London
Detective Hildur and her partner investigate a murder half-buried by an avalanche. As they pursue a killer through secrets and silence, both are forced to confront their own pasts.
🧵 2/4
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
✨ The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Rämö
Translated from Finnish by Kristian London
Detective Hildur and her partner investigate a murder half-buried by an avalanche. As they pursue a killer through secrets and silence, both are forced to confront their own pasts.
🧵 2/4
Translated from Finnish by Kristian London
Detective Hildur and her partner investigate a murder half-buried by an avalanche. As they pursue a killer through secrets and silence, both are forced to confront their own pasts.
🧵 2/4
✨ Live Fast by Brigitte Giraud
(translated by Cory Stockwell)
In the aftermath of her partner’s death, a woman reconstructs the decisions and accidents that led to disaster. Moving through memory and speculation, the novel asks how a life can turn on small moments.
🧵 4/4
(translated by Cory Stockwell)
In the aftermath of her partner’s death, a woman reconstructs the decisions and accidents that led to disaster. Moving through memory and speculation, the novel asks how a life can turn on small moments.
🧵 4/4
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨ Live Fast by Brigitte Giraud
(translated by Cory Stockwell)
In the aftermath of her partner’s death, a woman reconstructs the decisions and accidents that led to disaster. Moving through memory and speculation, the novel asks how a life can turn on small moments.
🧵 4/4
(translated by Cory Stockwell)
In the aftermath of her partner’s death, a woman reconstructs the decisions and accidents that led to disaster. Moving through memory and speculation, the novel asks how a life can turn on small moments.
🧵 4/4
✨ Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet
(translated by Sam Taylor)
A scandalous hidden painting and a city on edge draw the great art historian Giorgio Vasari into an investigation where art, politics, and violence collide.
🧵 3/4
(translated by Sam Taylor)
A scandalous hidden painting and a city on edge draw the great art historian Giorgio Vasari into an investigation where art, politics, and violence collide.
🧵 3/4
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨ Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet
(translated by Sam Taylor)
A scandalous hidden painting and a city on edge draw the great art historian Giorgio Vasari into an investigation where art, politics, and violence collide.
🧵 3/4
(translated by Sam Taylor)
A scandalous hidden painting and a city on edge draw the great art historian Giorgio Vasari into an investigation where art, politics, and violence collide.
🧵 3/4
✨ Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes
(translated by Frank Wynne)
An explosive, modern-day Dangerous Liaisons set in Paris, where two unlikely correspondents clash and connect across divides of gender, power, and belief.
🧵 2/4
(translated by Frank Wynne)
An explosive, modern-day Dangerous Liaisons set in Paris, where two unlikely correspondents clash and connect across divides of gender, power, and belief.
🧵 2/4
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨ Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes
(translated by Frank Wynne)
An explosive, modern-day Dangerous Liaisons set in Paris, where two unlikely correspondents clash and connect across divides of gender, power, and belief.
🧵 2/4
(translated by Frank Wynne)
An explosive, modern-day Dangerous Liaisons set in Paris, where two unlikely correspondents clash and connect across divides of gender, power, and belief.
🧵 2/4
✨ Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
Living in London with her girlfriend, Jay is forced back to Ireland when her dead brother is proposed for sainthood. A probing look at faith, family stories, and who gets to define a life.
🧵 5/5
Living in London with her girlfriend, Jay is forced back to Ireland when her dead brother is proposed for sainthood. A probing look at faith, family stories, and who gets to define a life.
🧵 5/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
✨ Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
Living in London with her girlfriend, Jay is forced back to Ireland when her dead brother is proposed for sainthood. A probing look at faith, family stories, and who gets to define a life.
🧵 5/5
Living in London with her girlfriend, Jay is forced back to Ireland when her dead brother is proposed for sainthood. A probing look at faith, family stories, and who gets to define a life.
🧵 5/5
✨ Camarade by Theo Dorgan
From Paris, an Irish exile revisits the violent moment that shaped him. The novel moves between memory and politics, a taut exploration of guilt, loyalty, and the histories we carry.
🧵 4/5
From Paris, an Irish exile revisits the violent moment that shaped him. The novel moves between memory and politics, a taut exploration of guilt, loyalty, and the histories we carry.
🧵 4/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
✨ Camarade by Theo Dorgan
From Paris, an Irish exile revisits the violent moment that shaped him. The novel moves between memory and politics, a taut exploration of guilt, loyalty, and the histories we carry.
🧵 4/5
From Paris, an Irish exile revisits the violent moment that shaped him. The novel moves between memory and politics, a taut exploration of guilt, loyalty, and the histories we carry.
🧵 4/5
✨ The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr
A found baby on the Donegal coast unsettles a family and the town around them. Spanning twenty years, it reveals small jealousies, fragile bonds, and the slow weight of growing up in a close community.
🧵 3/5
A found baby on the Donegal coast unsettles a family and the town around them. Spanning twenty years, it reveals small jealousies, fragile bonds, and the slow weight of growing up in a close community.
🧵 3/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
✨ The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr
A found baby on the Donegal coast unsettles a family and the town around them. Spanning twenty years, it reveals small jealousies, fragile bonds, and the slow weight of growing up in a close community.
🧵 3/5
A found baby on the Donegal coast unsettles a family and the town around them. Spanning twenty years, it reveals small jealousies, fragile bonds, and the slow weight of growing up in a close community.
🧵 3/5
✨ Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Irish teenagers in late-70s London find brief solace together before life separates them. Decades on, their paths echo and cross, capturing the quiet ache of exile, resilience, and time.
🧵 2/5
Irish teenagers in late-70s London find brief solace together before life separates them. Decades on, their paths echo and cross, capturing the quiet ache of exile, resilience, and time.
🧵 2/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
✨ Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Irish teenagers in late-70s London find brief solace together before life separates them. Decades on, their paths echo and cross, capturing the quiet ache of exile, resilience, and time.
🧵 2/5
Irish teenagers in late-70s London find brief solace together before life separates them. Decades on, their paths echo and cross, capturing the quiet ache of exile, resilience, and time.
🧵 2/5
Wow! Thanks for sharing Clara.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Wow! Thanks for sharing Clara.