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Before I Forget by Anne Pauly: a touching and surprisingly funny meditation on caring for ageing abusive parents

Before I Forget by Anne Pauly: a touching and surprisingly funny meditation on caring for ageing abusive parents

How do you put the past aside when you have no choice but to care for a parent who treated you badly?

24.09.2026 9

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Helen Vassallo

The Long Version by Petra Hůlová is about a middle‑aged feminist caught between the past and future

Sylvie feels like her radical world only exists in the past and as she gets older her choices and world are shrinking.

07.09.2026 10

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Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro is a gripping Argentinian crime story about gender violence and the weaponisation of religion

The unsolved murder of a young girl in Argentina sends shockwaves through generations of a religious family.

20.05.2026 20

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Helen Vassallo