‘Witty, relatable and just the right level of heart-warming, These Precious Days is a book for our times. A generous and spirited collection that illuminates life in all its wonder and absurdity, it also pays tribute to the possibilities of the essay form.’

‘Another win for Charco’s Spanish-language publications and for Annie McDermott’s agile translation. A short and powerful read, it demands to be re-read and scrutinised.’

‘The range of this author’s imagination and her deceptively comfortable prose style take the stories in Dead Relatives well beyond the confines of genre fiction.’

‘Brickmakers is a rich, confident and urgent read from Charco Press, and yet more evidence of the publisher’s reputation for having the sharpest eye when it comes to contemporary Latin American literature.’

‘Safely Gathered In is a truly striking debut, rich with innovation and imagination; it prods irreverently at the preconceptions one might have about what a short story collection can be, what its contents can do.’

‘The novel reads as a kind of meditation and reckoning on place and purpose.’

‘Deep Wheel Orcadia feels like a novel with a life of its own, that will reveal new parts of itself with each reading.’

‘Lemon is a sharp, explosive novel that challenges the reader to consider the impact of beauty standards in our culture on young people, and compels us to examine our notion of what justice can be when we are faced with the unthinkable. Highly recommended.’

‘Irreverent, intellectual, and unapologetically demanding of its readers, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is a juggernaut of a novel, a work of fiction that reads like an outpouring, a release of many years of pent-up political frustrations.’

‘The strong imagery and gothic metaphors highlight, very successfully, an urgent subject, and it’s this that makes the book such a powerful read.’

‘Roig’s writing leaves the reader with a vivid sense of time and place, but also invites them to consider how quickly real lives become fable, how easily we absorb war, oppression and pain into our collective memory.’

‘Here MacLeod has certainly created her own substantial work of depth and complexity, of shifting tones and times converging on – well, if not a truth, then the search for some greater, more authentic questioning of what truth can be, and, perhaps, what tenderness may be found in the asking.’

‘There are wonders here. Embrace them.’

‘English Magic deftly addresses the unsettling and nebulous nature of this strange land, and its spiritual and political identities.’

‘Occupation asks a lot of its readers, but it gives in equal measure; and when you do come up for air, you look around you with a renewed and invigorated sense of the space you occupy in your own life. Superb.’

‘This collection provides a tantalising glimpse into the City’s cultural climate, its storytellers unafraid of the darker side of this place of grey nights, shifting obsessions, and haunted horizons.’

‘Not quite a novel, not quite a collection of stories, A Shock is more a series of moments, all exquisitely captured, each with its own profundity.’

‘Test Signal serves as poignant testament to the wide-ranging and multifaceted array of contemporary northern writing, defying a London-centric publishing industry, and reflecting, head-on, the time in which we live.’

‘As in all of Eika’s stories, the reader is confronted with a degree of uncertainty, both thrilling and destabilising. After the Sun is not a comfortable read. Instead it is, in the words of ‘Rachel, Nevada’’s narrator, a ‘rupture in continuity’, redefining what the short story can do.’

‘Wildly creative, stylistically assured, and still as relevant today as it was when it was first published, dem is a biting, moralising novel that requires its readers to conduct the final reckoning.’