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The story of Tessa Ensler and her fight with the legal system goes from stage to page — but the play’s power is often missing
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s tale about identity and authenticity centres on the controversial legacy of an author who goes to ground after accusations of plagiarism
The follow-up to 2018’s bestselling ‘There There’ is a powerful, multi-voiced account of suffering and survival across the generations
Croft’s second novel is a metatextual mystery that reflects on truth, fiction and literary interpretation
A British-Nigerian odyssey, a day in the life of a daydreaming English student, and fathers and sons in an ex-mining town
Featuring cannibalism, Nazis and Soviet leaders having sex, this novel and short-story collection — finally available in English — are like nothing else
An unfinished story has been released posthumously — against the Nobel laureate’s wishes. Should it have remained unpublished?
The UN takes on terrorists, fascism spreads its web — and the mysterious Elly Conway is finally unmasked
In his latest volume of auto-fiction, the French literary sensation narrates a ruthless quest to disown his working-class roots
Composed entirely in speech, this inventive, award-winning novel deftly explores the stories we tell ourselves and other people
In his new historical novel, Ukraine’s most feted writer tackles war’s absurdities — and the thorny issue of using Russian
A coming-of-age tale from former White House insider Vinson Cunningham has flashes of brilliance among the political clichés
Toby Lloyd’s debut novel eschews easy answers as it deploys shifting voices to weave a modern horror story
Contemporary concerns are inescapable in a novel that witnesses the evils of imperialism through the eyes of a young Eric Blair
A cult bestseller in Japan, Asako Yuzuki’s newly translated novel explores the case of a serial-killer chef
In exile since Putin’s war on Ukraine, the Russian author talks about banned books — and the death of the jailed opposition leader
Julius Taranto’s debut takes a satirical swipe at bad behaviour on campus, but the result is somewhat academic
Catherine Coldstream’s intense memoir of a grieving daughter’s journey from agnostic to anchorite reads like a thriller
A staple of the genre is given a new twist in Vangie’s Ghosts, while High Vaultage takes readers on a journey into an alternative Victorian-era capital
Maki Kashimada’s novel about a woman haunted by the trauma of the city’s atomic past is an intensely original work
A genre-defying saga of a town taken over by escaped slaves is a compelling blend of historical fiction and magic realism
An idiosyncratic style drives this story of loss and lust in working-class gay life in rural England
An astute portrayal of the dislocation of first-generation immigrants
After ‘Such a Fun Age’, the bestselling writer turns her finely tuned satire on the power dynamics of US college life
Laird Hunt’s portrait of seemingly ordinary lives in Reagan-era Indiana is a timely refresher on human decency
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