This slim, haunting, mesmeric novel from the Nobel Prize winner is finally published in the UK
From the Swiss Alps to Norway via Paris and London — bad dads loom large in this current crop of fiction
The discovery of a mysterious newborn baby girl lies at the heart of this lyrical novel set in 1960s rural Ireland
The great Japanese author revisits familiar territory in a typically meandering novel that explores the fragile nature of reality
A collection of dark stories that are perversely funny and piercingly perceptive
A collection of interlinked short stories sees the Booker-shortlisted novelist fully embrace the horror genre
Rebus is behind bars, Scarpetta is back. Plus murder mysteries in South Africa, France and Georgian London
Yoko Tawada’s absurdist tale explores plurality and belonging in a warming world that’s being reshaped by rising sea levels
The author’s latest political satire offers a thinly disguised polemic wrapped in a well-plotted murder mystery
The latest outing for the Booker winner’s Dublin pathologist again leads readers into a morass of deception and betrayal
George Smiley returns to the Circus — and a female ex-spook makes an impressive debut
Set in the 1920s, Xan Brooks’s second novel is a lyrical road trip into a world populated by gloriously Dickensian characters
Postwar Bristol provides the setting for a finely wrought coming-of-age novella
The king of obsessive realism takes a supernatural turn as he focuses his attention on Norway’s extreme black metal scene
A majestic novel about the migrant experience in Germany that speaks to us all
An adult and child navigate a climate-ravaged world in a chilling post-apocalyptic novel
The fable-like story of a family shunning the rules of a surveillance state asks where our world is heading
The latest listens explore male grief, gay coming of age and environmental activism — plus rediscovering the joys of Jilly Cooper
The author of ‘The Reader’ on his new east-meets-west novel and the post-reunification grievances fuelling votes for the AfD
Escape from Nazi Germany through the Kindertransport initiative was the catalyst for a lifetime of writing
The latest reissue of the English crime writer’s novels brings her unsettling yet delightful prose to a new readership
Award comes against a backdrop of growing international appreciation of her country’s culture
The South Korean author won 2016’s Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’. This pick of FT reviews and interviews looks back at her other books
A renewed focus on pandemics, sanatoriums and troubled minds reveals much about the state of our times
The American writer blends ocean exploration and social technology in his Booker-longlisted novel
