Read the review of Helen Garner’s book, published by nottetempo, 312 pp., 20 euros

Silvia Fanfani makes her debut with "Un cuore bianco come un chicco di riso," a novel in which the pain of loss is transformed into a heart-wrenching account of possibilities that are no longer within reach, of events lost forever. Yet in Japan, these are seamlessly woven into the wonder of a daughter who now protects her mother

Humboldt Books has reissued Samuel Butler’s classic "The Alps and the Sanctuaries", which takes a different approach to the Grand Tour so often extolled by writers and artists from England and northern Europe

Part novel, part essay, part reportage and part memoir, Heather Christle’s "Among the Rhododendrons" reads like a tapestry of memories and reflections, characterised by a continuous flow in which every shift in perspective radically alters not only the present but also the past