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Antony Beevor’s sweeping history of Russia’s revolution and civil war, an intriguing look at the stats behind cricket, two provocative new insights into female sexuality, the decline of Roger Federer, Sandra Newman’s dystopian world without men, a second novel from Candace Carty-Wiliams — plus new titles on climate and the environment
A nasty break-up and its repercussions put the spotlight on fractured siblings and their absent father
An intriguing social premise — the sudden disappearance of men — descends into an unconvincing personal psychodrama
The series on Sky/Now careers from screwball comedy to high-stakes thriller to childhood drama
A sensitive and affecting novel about a day in the lives of two women facing heart-rending choices
The Omani author’s new novel traces her country’s rapid modernisation but she insists that it offers a parallel reality rather than a factual guide
Fast-paced tales of intrigue from Leningrad to Lisbon. Plus echoes of George Smiley — and an illustrated edition of le Carré himself
Set during France’s Ancien Régime, this engaging novel harnesses our sympathies in a picaresque search for truth
Miriam Toews’s eighth novel tackles birth, life and loss through the eyes of a daughter, mother and grandmother
These short stories tread similar rewarding territory as her thrilling Booker-shortlisted novel ‘Great Circle’
Agency replaces submissiveness when women are recast as protagonists, rather than victims or peripheral characters
Finally translated into English, this 1962 story of aliens seeking to save mankind blends high and popular literature in provocative ways
The novelist continues her quirky, semi-autobiographical story of student life in this amusing sequel to ‘The Idiot’
Set during the hot summer of 1989, Benjamin Myers’ atmospheric novel follows two troubled souls on a mission to create ever more elaborate crop circles
Alongside dystopian visions from writers today comes a clutch of classics from master of prescience John Wyndham
Elizabeth Lowry’s novel conjures not only the writer, but also the wife whose death inspired his most moving poetry
Literature meets engineering as Adrian Duncan’s protagonist seeks patterns of meaning in the world he surveys around him
In her debut novel, ex-chef Louise Kennedy brings tension, hope and a female perspective to a story of sectarian conflict
Past, present and multiple characters interweave in standout new stories of family bonds and betrayals
In recreating the premiere of the ‘St Matthew Passion’, James Runcie transports us to a richly imagined musical world
The stories of this year’s PEN/Faulkner award-winner are both enchanting and full of political fury
Steve Toltz’s novel features a mordant, witty misanthrope who finds there is life after death — and it’s a lot like his native Sydney
The latest sleuthing and skulduggery from Lindsey Davis, Don Winslow, Deon Meyer and more
An imagined memoir of a 19th-century child star is a scintillating study of fame’s dark side
Like ‘Animal Farm’, the Zimbabwean author’s second novel plays with language to weave a timely fable about truth and tyranny
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