Culture Vulture has asked for suggestions of books and authors from different countries, as part of a fortnightly series. Starting with Finland. Errrm. Tove Jannsson is the only one I know. I shall obviously be visiting the 'best suggestions page' when it goes live to ensure my embarassing lack of knowledge is put right!

I also posted, suggesting that they run a similar series at some point on books from different cities. Last year I visited Toronto, and really enjoyed reading books by authors based in the city, mainly writing about the city, on my return. The trick would be to find cities that aren't so frequently written about - there's nothing surprising, for example, about a book from London or New York. Now what about books written about Budapest (Tibor Fishcher, step forward please) or or Buenos Aires (Cortes?) or Auckland, etc.