Savages by Sabri Louatah — vive la différenceA family celebrates the prospect of a Muslim president in a socio-political thriller that questions what it means to be French todayLullaby by Leïla Slimani — one of the familyA nanny wreaks havoc on her affluent French employers in an assured literary thriller that is more than the sum of its partsBeautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne — a ‘crazed beast of a novel’An attempt to rescue a refugee goes disastrously wrong in this sizzling tale of expat misadventures on a Greek islandThe Fall Guy by James Lasdun — deliciously offThis psychological thriller is a masterclass in building a mood of uneasinessMacbeth by Jo Nesbo — bloody and boldA Norwegian crime writer’s noirish retelling of ‘Macbeth’Everything You Do is Wrong by Amanda Coe — what lies beneathA subversive, slow-burning thriller offers an absorbing picture of small-town Britain
Savages by Sabri Louatah — vive la différenceA family celebrates the prospect of a Muslim president in a socio-political thriller that questions what it means to be French todayLullaby by Leïla Slimani — one of the familyA nanny wreaks havoc on her affluent French employers in an assured literary thriller that is more than the sum of its partsBeautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne — a ‘crazed beast of a novel’An attempt to rescue a refugee goes disastrously wrong in this sizzling tale of expat misadventures on a Greek islandThe Fall Guy by James Lasdun — deliciously offThis psychological thriller is a masterclass in building a mood of uneasinessMacbeth by Jo Nesbo — bloody and boldA Norwegian crime writer’s noirish retelling of ‘Macbeth’Everything You Do is Wrong by Amanda Coe — what lies beneathA subversive, slow-burning thriller offers an absorbing picture of small-town Britain
