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The Harvest of the Month: Claudel, Baker, Russo, Van der Kwast

The summer period is a fine time for catch-up reading - books from recent times that you still wanted to read but didn't get around to before - but we also got a glimpse of a few upcoming titles. That made for a fine, varied crop this month.
Eifel adventures
Since The Detour, no new novel has been published by Gerbrand Bakker, the author who achieved worldwide success with the wonderful Above is the Silence. The reason: for about five years he has been struggling with a writing cr...

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A Quattro Mani

Photographer Marc Brester and journalist Vivian de Gier can read and write with each other - literally. As partners in crime, they travel the world for various media, for reviews of the finest literature and personal interviews with the writers who matter. Ahead of the troops and beyond the delusion of the day.View Author posts

The summer period is a fine time for catch-up reading - books from recent times that you still wanted to read but didn't get around to before - but we also got a glimpse of a few upcoming titles. That made for a fine, varied crop this month.
Eifel adventures
Since The Detour, no new novel has been published by Gerbrand Bakker, the author who achieved worldwide success with the wonderful Above is the Silence. The reason: for about five years he has been struggling with a writing cr...

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