Part memoir, part science, part history, the Tasmanian novelist’s latest book rejoices in resisting definition
Irvine Welsh’s Ray Lennox confronts trauma again; puzzling happenings in Dubai and Tokyo; plus echoes of Marple and Ripley
A novelist who survived one of eastern Europe’s most vicious tyrannies and drew comparisons with Kafka and Orwell
Can Britain be mended?; the women who shaped the American dream; Albania and Serbia — two histories of Balkan neighbours; refrigeration’s chilling impact on global food supply systems; a thriller-like account of the US military getting up-to-date with tech; a kidnapping in a wealthy Long Island milieu; short stories with a fresh take on life’s Kafkaesque absurdity — plus Adam LeBor’s round-up of the best spy and war thrillers
A collection of contemporary short stories offers a refreshing range of responses to the absurdist nature of modern life
A wealthy family’s life is upturned by a kidnapping in Taffy Brodesser-Ackner’s fine follow-up to ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’
Andrzej Tichý’s stories of lives blighted by poverty are told with an unnerving command of structure and narrative
The dark side of 1930s Europe, a mysterious brothel in present-day Belgravia — plus a topical Syrian-set story from a ‘Spiral’ screenwriter
After a 13-year hiatus, the author returns with a tender novella about the possibilities of an imagined life
Lauren Elkin explores questions of feminism and fidelity in a time-hopping tale of two marriages
A posthumous and seamless completion of a volcano thriller that the ‘Jurassic Park’ writer left unfinished after his death in 2008
Barry Forshaw selects his best mid-year reads
Suzi Feay selects her best mid-year reads
James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads
Laura Battle and Andrew Dickson select their best mid-year reads
Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his best mid-year reads
Alex Clark selects her best mid-year listens
Adam LeBor selects his best mid-year reads
Leonid Tsypkin’s newly reissued novel fuses Soviet-inflected nostalgia with a biography of the great Russian writer
A weird and raucous novel about living and dying
A quest to find a brilliant and elusive African soccer player forms the backdrop to O’Neill’s globetrotting novel
Social ills and unrest in modern-day Chile play out in a tense and tragic story of a put-upon domestic worker
Designer diamonds, luxury yachts and hallucinogenic toads all feature in Kevin Kwan’s latest novel
’Pemi Aguda’s short stories evoke the chaos, smells, corruption and supernatural influences in Nigeria’s biggest city
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