#Sinoist Books

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2025 Crime, Mystery and Thriller Books

An exciting year! The Last Word Is Death (The Val & Arbie Mysteries #2) by Faith Martin | 02 / 01 / 25 – HQ Digital One of these guests has a date with death… Arbuthnot ‘Arbie’ Swift arrives at Dashwood House, a glamorously modern hotel in the up-and-coming resort of Galton-next-the-Sea, but all plans for a relaxing stay are scuppered when one of the guests is found dead. The body is found in…

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A Looking-Glass World

A Novel By Feng Jicai (Translated by Olivia Milburn) A looking-glass world, Sinoist Books, 2021 1900, China. The Qing Dynasty is still in power, but not for long, and China is subject to foreign domination, both from Western Countries, Christian Missions and the Japanese. It’s not an easy time for Chinese people, especially those who are simple farmers and fishermen. But it’s not any easier for…

[thegirlwiththelantern]

2025 Translated Fiction

A collection largely of literary works, there’s a dip into the fantastical and lighthearted. There are also a few classical translations that I’m very much anticipating. Voices of the Fallen Heroes: And Other Stories by Yukio Mishima, ed. Stephen Dodd, translators unnamed | 16 / 01 / 25 – Penguin Classics A writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and…

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2024 Translated Fiction

These are primarily literary fiction. Genre fiction I tend to list among others of its kind. Or rather that was the intention. Great Spanish Stories ed. Margaret Jull Costa, trans. Margaret Jull Costa, trans. Thomas Bunstead, trans. Peter Bush, trans. Kathryn Phillips-Miles, trans. Simon Deefholt, trans. Kit Maude | 11 / 01 / 24 – Penguin Classics A riveting selection of short stories in…

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2024 Historical Fiction Books

Historical fiction hasn’t quite come to me as easily this year as it has in previous. I’ve had to seek out most of these though I am very happy with this selection. The Beholders by Hester Musson | 18 / 01 / 24 – Fourth Estate June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of the River Thames, suspected to be the beloved missing child of the widely admired Liberal MP Ralph…