Natalia's Spring Picks 2026
Selected by the Bookshop
In my picks for spring there are, as usual, some crime/detective thrillers and some new translated fiction. While I yearn for books that can be more comforting, I find that they all seem to remind me of the state of play that we are presently navigating: unsettling, ungraspable, untethered.
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Translated by Ellen JonesTwo nuns, and one obsessed mother, doing everything in their power to achieve communion with the one they love.Sister Lugarda de la Encarnación takes the lash, and an unnamed mother gets down on her hands and…
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Translated by Natasha WimmerA darkly funny and action-packed radical recasting of how the American West was 'won', from the visionary author of Guardian and New York Times Book of the Year You Dreamed of EmpiresOnce…
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Exquisitely written, absorbing and original, Wilderness of Mirrors is Caine Prize winner Olufemi Terry’s transfixing fiction debut. A prescient political novel set in a parallel, contemporary southern part of Africa still reeling from…
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Translated by Sasha DugdaleThe writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present…
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Translated by Jesse KirkwoodMusashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play – but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of…
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Translated by Yui KajitaRETURN TO THE WORLD OF THE SAMURAI DETECTIVES, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING SERIES OF THRILLING ADVENTURE AND INSCRUTABLE MYSTERYIn the months since their last perilous quest, a fragile calm has…
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