The full Jan Morris review is as follows:

'An unusual and genre-bending book that I much admired and enjoyed this year was Kapka Kassabova's STREET WITHOUT A NAME (Portobello Books, £15.99). It is a young woman's memoir of life in Bulgaria during and immediately after its Communist years - at once poignant, funny and revealing. Kassabova escapes from Red Bulgaria as soon as she can to wander the world, but it is her return to the country after the collapse of the satellite regime, and her response to her own emotions then, that makes the book historically valuable as a rarely evoked segment of the European experience.'

Jan Morris, Critics' Choice of Books of the Year, The Financial Times

Kapka will be writing regularly in the Sunday Times Magazine in their "open minds" slot, alongside twelve others, including Alain de Botton, Oliver James, Kathy Lette, Antony Beevor, Will Self and Shami Chakrabarti.

Her first piece appeared last weekend - on the less savoury side of Saturday nights in Edinburgh

Link to author's page