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• Egon Erwin Kisch's 1937 account of making Australian Landfall
  
  
• Agatha Christie's 1970 stand-alone, Passenger to Frankfurt
  
  
• Sandy Wilson's hit 1920s/1950s musical, The Boy Friend
  
  
• Klaus Modick's Moss
  
  
• A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer, The West End Horror
  
  
• A Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers by Janet Hitchman from 1975, Such a Strange Lady
  
  
• Cho Yeeun's novel, Shift, now in English, from Honford Star
  
  
• Margit Schreiner, finding Kein Platz mehr
  
  
• Norishiro Yusuke's prize-winning novel, Traveling Practice
  
  
• Edgar Hilsenrath's 1980 novel, F**k America: Bronsky's Confession
  
  
• Andrea Bajani's Premio Strega-winning novel, The Anniversary, due out shortly in the UK and at the end of August in the US
  
  
• Mark Haber's 2022 novel, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
  
  
• Richard Condon's 1974 thriller, Winter Kills
  
  
• Mishima Yukio's 1950 novel, Thirst for Love
  
  
• James Bailey on The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, in Like a Cat Loves a Bird
  
  
• Amélie Nothomb's (briefly-)back-to-Japan novel, L'impossible retour
  
  
• Len Deighton's 1974 novel, Spy Story
  
  
• Joanna Kavenna's latest novel, Seven or, How to Play a Game Without Rules
  
  
• Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning novel, Orbital
  
  
• Stig Sæterbakken's Self-Control, soon to be re-issued by Dalkey Archive Press
  
  
• Laura B. McGrath on Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction, in Middlemen
  
  
• Gwendoline Riley's latest, The Palm House
  
  
• Caroline Bicks' account of My Year of Fear with Stephen King, in Monsters in the Archives
  
  
• The next installment in Solvej Balle's septology, On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)
  
  
• Daniel Hahn on The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation, in If This Be Magic
  
  
• Alastair Reynolds' recent novel, Halcyon Years
  
  
• Herta Müller in conversation with Angelika Klammer, about Writing and Surviving Ceaușescu's Romania, in The Village on the Edge of the World
  
  
• Cho Yeeun's Teddy Bears Never Die
  
  
• A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines by W. Patrick McCray, README
  
  
• Fahmida Riaz's 2017 novel, Fortress of the Forgotten Ones, now in English, from Open Letter
  
  
• Kawakami Mieko's latest, Sisters in Yellow, now out in English
  
  
• Ignatius T. Mabasa's The Mad -- the first in the University of Georgia Press' African Language Literatures in Translation-series
  
  
• A new, unabridged (and three-volume) translation of Yoshikawa Eiji's 1939 epic, Musashi

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