Bitter Lemon bring you high quality, award-winning contemporary crime fiction and eclectic non-fiction books.
These are gripping crime books that expose the darker side of foreign places. From mystery novels to thrillers, they explore what lies just beneath the surface of the bustling life of countries such as Cuba, Mexico, Turkey, France and Italy. From Argentina to Australia, these crime fiction books are for your travels - whether real or imaginary.
Wilmington Square Books are a collection of non-fiction books about culture and society, chosen for their originality, their quality and their contribution to knowledge and debate.
Tune in to Cold Summer – airing on Channel 4 at midnight on Sundays for eight weeks from 13 April, and available to stream on Walter Presents. But don’t expect sunny beaches and azure waters. In the shadows of the city a mafia war is brewing. Standing in the way of the gangsters is Pietro Fenoglio played by Alessio Boni. The LINK
Crime Fiction Lover publishes an interview with Jurica Pavicic, author of the prize-winning novel Red Water, out this month. See LINK.
French author Marion Brunet has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), the world’s biggest international children’s and young adult literature prize. In a joint announcement LINK from Stockholm and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, judges praised Brunet for her “shimmering and crystal-clear prose". Brunet has had only two titles translated into English – Vanda and Summer of Reckoning, both published by Bitter Lemon Press in Katherine Gregor’s translation. The latter title was shortlisted for the 2020 CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger.
See the LINK to our March newsletter. Veronica Rosenthal, the intrepid Buenos Aires investigative reporter, is back in another international murder mystery. The Best Enemy, by Sergio Olguin, is just out. "After tearing through The Best Enemy, I know I’ll be reading the three earlier instalments immediately." Sarah Weinman, New York Times
