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

Children find it hard to talk to me about what upsets them, especially if the adults they rely on are with them.

In the silence and solitude, where she seeks to be moved only by the music she chooses, she sees things she did not see before and hears things she did not hear before, but is that enough? The book by Elvira Seminara

“My grandmother’s name was Grazia, but to everyone, in Sardinian, she was Grassiedda. That’s why my father wanted to call me Graziella: not to distance me from her, but so that I might resemble her.” An unpublished story by Graziella Monni

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

Muriel Spark’s novella is set towards the end of the Second World War in a London ravaged by bombing. The protagonists live in an elegant yet dilapidated residence, reserved for ‘young women of modest means under the age of thirty who are forced to live away from their families in order to pursue a career in London’

But what noise? It’s the sound of life at the heart of the world. When Romans say, ‘I’ve had enough of the capital’, I simply can’t believe it. The broken drinking fountain