Deborah Levy’s 2016 Booker shortlisted novel Hot Milk is about Sofia Papastergiadis, a 25-or-so-year-old anthropologist-cum-barista, and her mother Rose, who travel to Almeria in Spain to attend a ...

I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills, first published in 1982, with intense curiosity. Until then, I had only sparsely known Ishiguro as someone who had won the Nobel Prize for Literature in ...