Fiction in translation

This volume is a collection of Sciascia's stories. In one tale, a couple of men talk about the etymology of the word 'mafia', and the reader comes to realise that he is eavesdropping on the musings of a mafia boss and his underling.

This is a deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, dreams and reality, this is Ernaux's daunting journey through time as she was confronted with the reality of her mother's death from Alzheimer's.

'The Years', by bestselling French author Annie Ernaux, is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted w...