Our new selection features mind-bending cyber-horror, dystopian thrillers and a supernatural Western
Why Gen Z are seeing religion as a cool lifestyle choice; Saudi Arabia’s transformation into petrostate titan; how media aped pornography and demeaned women; the flight from the Nazis of Jewish intellectuals; a new biography of Muriel Spark; wistful short stories by DJ Taylor; posthumous works by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz; a stirring Catalan novel of folklore and the supernatural; our selection of economics titles — plus Nilanjana Roy on reading in sync with the seasons
A new collection of tales by this prolific author deserves praise for evoking poignancy and beauty amid nostalgia and neglect
Irene Solà’s exhilarating novel mixes folklore, history and the supernatural in a heady brew
A collection of fragmentary, bittersweet vignettes by the late Nobel laureate builds into a pattern, albeit an elusive one
From summer hammock to winter fireside, books can chime with the seasonal rhythms lying dormant in our crowded lives
Author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi on ‘Heart Lamp’, the first short-story collection to win the award
Elaine Feeney’s unlikeable protagonist treads well-trodden literary ground — but what do her observations tell us?
Set in the Shetlands, the debut novel by the lauded Scottish poet showcases his linguistic adventurousness
A woman looks back on her teenage ordeal at the hands of a Paris fashion photographer in a fictional reshaping of trauma
Heart Lamp, the first short-story collection to win the award, is also the first to have been translated from Kannada
Crime in the war-ravaged Balkans of the 1990s, a plot against the UN, geopolitics in Greenland and a Danish police procedural
The Austrian-German writer’s new novel The Director explores totalitarianism through a fictionalised account of the Nazi-era filmmaker GW Pabst. It couldn’t be more timely
A real-life family tragedy is the basis for this International Booker-shortlisted fable of duty, attachment and mental illness
Lydia Millet’s collection explores the malaise among the different generations of two LA families
A luminous tale about borders, bodies and a sense of belonging alternates between 1960s Italy and 2020s Ireland
Panic about the demise of book reading is overblown — across genres, formats and devices, young people are finding and creating their own storytelling communities
Plus Karin Slaughter, Vaseem Khan, Alex North, SJ Parris and Taku Ashibe — it’s a bumper crop
As Bath celebrates Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary, Jemima Kelly dons bonnet and bows to join devotees on a Regency-themed tour
The novel explores the idea of the self through the character of Kinga, a woman with dissociative identity disorder who has seven ‘alters’, one for each day of the week
The second novel by the celebrated poet returns to themes of loss, poverty and unlikely friendship
The Prix Goncourt-winning author’s newly translated novel explores the abandonment and violence wrought by conflict in Europe
The celebrated historian of Vichy France recalls her closest relatives’ collaboration with the Nazis in a harrowing but elegant fictional debut
Funmi Fetto’s tales of nine African women; Issa Quincy’s haunting vignettes; Louise Hegarty’s sparkling yet sad crime novel; Alexander Sammartino’s black comedy; and Saba Sams’ tender take on the messiness of life
The prizewinning witty chronicler of middle-class life claimed writing was her ‘salvation’
