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Salman Rushdie’s ‘gift of alchemy’ in new novel ‘Victory City’; big business vs big government in America; museums and the ownership of history; Aleksandar Hemon’s ambitious new epic; Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s state-of-Nigeria novel; how to help England’s north; the life of Dick Whittington; terror in rural France — plus Adam LeBor’s round-up of new thrillers
The much-derided genre is not only a sure earner for the publishing industry — it also moves with the times
The Bosnian-American author returns to themes of displacement in an epic novel that spans decades
In a follow-up to her acclaimed ‘Stay With Me’, the Nigerian writer has crafted a powerful state-of-the-nation saga
Laurent Mauvignier’s erudite, narratively skilful thriller builds tension as danger looms for a hamlet’s residents
The author who was brutally attacked last year conjures up a fantasy world where India’s great religions come together
Paul Harding, author of the Pulitzer-winning ‘Tinkers’, brings a creeping menace to this saga of islanders whose rural idyll is shattered by exploitation
The killing of a precious deer calf in the Swedish Arctic brings home the struggles of the region’s indigenous people
An intense and precise novel that explores the changing sexual mores of Victorian society through the eyes of two ethical pioneers
French writer/film-maker Philippe Claudel weaves together disparate strands to create a decade-spanning panorama
The final volume in the Children of Disaster trilogy weaves public and private lives into a vibrant account of France in 1940
Deepti Kapoor’s crime saga evokes a modern city of carnage, confusion — and brilliant dreams
The novella, rendered in Ottilie Mulzet’s fine translation, is imbued with a precision that can be glorious, but also at times intensely analytical
A motorcycle-riding Irish priest is the driving force in this polyphonic literary thriller set during the Nazi occupation of Rome
An artful novel teeming with ideas about politics, time and trauma
A South Korean classic about tycoons, ghosts and cinephiles that blends folklore and magical realism
From historian Serhii Plokhy on the war in Ukraine to a fresh take on the Cultural Revolution and the latest by Paul Auster and Salman Rushdie, a preview of this year’s titles
Robert E Howard’s Conan comes back in rousing fashion, courtesy of SM Stirling, while Aliette de Bodard summons the spirit of HG Wells
‘The part she liked most about working was also the part she was best at: deep monotasking to the point of pure immersion’
A serial killer, pretty LA teens and lashings of prescription drugs feature in Ellis’s atmospheric first novel in 13 years
An architect confronts her own trauma in this story set in pre-Olympics Brazil
An aesthete wrestles with his advancing years in this affecting novel
Tales of ingénues in gilded circles echo ‘The Secret History’ — while a dark saga set in Trinidad is a budding masterpiece
The American author’s sixth novel lampoons male use of academic credentials to feed on female attention
Based on a real individual, this is a quietly compelling portrait of a woman who has devoted her working life to racehorses
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