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Hands Full of Rose Thorns and Fridge Oil

Elizabeth Lowry

  • Triomf by Marlene van Niekerk, translated by Leon de Kock

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Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.

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