The Expats

by Chris Pavone

1. The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher: a family moves to the north of England. 2. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman: life at an English-language newspaper in Rome. 3. Capital by John Lanchester: immigrants to London mix with natives. 4. The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht: war and dying and surviving in Southern Europe. 5. Prague by Arthur Phillips: young expats in Eastern Europe, after the Wall. 6. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming: James Bond in France and in Switzerland and in love. 7. Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg: the precursor to the current Scandinavian-thriller craze, published back in ’92, set in Denmark. 8. Restless by William Boyd: World War II spying. 9. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller: World War II fighting. 10. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway: the ultimate expat novel, of Americans in Paris in the 1920s.