Books by Charlotte Mandell (translator)
“It is a brilliant book, and incredibly timely in terms of the west’s relationship with the Middle East. And in a sense it’s a kind of fictionalised version of Edward Said’s Orientalism. It tells us something about how we, in the West, established our perceptions and our relationship with the East, with Otherness, and I found that deeply compelling.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Charlotte Mandell (translator) were recommended
Neil Griffiths recommends the best Indie Fiction of 2017
Publishing took a hit in the 2007-8 financial crisis, but tough times may just have changed the industry for the better. As the big guys consolidate and tighten their margins, cracks grow wider and more books slip through… Which is good news for the publishers ready to catch them. The novelist Neil Griffiths, founder of a new prize for small presses, discusses 2017’s best indie books and celebrates publishers who ‘think like you, read like you, and live books like you’