Antonia Lloyd-Jones graduated from Oxford University in 1983 with a degree in Russian and Ancient Greek, and has been teaching herself Polish ever since. She has translated works by many of Poland's leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as crime fiction, poetry and children's books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. She is a mentor for the Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.

• 1: Boleslaw Prus: Apparitions 2: Maria Kuncewiczowa: Zoo 3: Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz: Icarus 4: Ludwik Hering: Traces 5: Zofia Petersowa: The Funeral 6: Marek Hlasko: First Step in the Clouds 7: Kazimierz Orlos: The Palace of Culture 8: Hanna Krall: The Presence 9: Antoni Libera: The View from Above and Below 10: Zbigniew Mentzel: The Warsaw Map 11: Olga Tokarczuk: Che Guevara 12: Krzysztof Varga: Return of the Evil One

This is a worthwhile effort to preserve strong examples of Polish writing in translation to make it accessible to the international market. The stories are logically structured, and carry a point, and present details to describe the scenes and tensions from this foreign perspective. Academic libraries should purchase this book,...These stories are so well written, it is difficult to indeed separate true autobiographies from the fictions.