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An actor-turned-novelist’s virtuoso monologue is a fully realised portrait of addiction
The Vietnamese-American’s second novel explores the migrant experience in seedy 1980s Paris, where drug dealers mix philosophy with violence and greed
Environmental activism, gay dads and childhood stammers get the narrative treatment
The author considers the advice given to her by Philip Roth: ‘Take it. If you can pick it up and carry it out of the room, it’s yours’
Three works on the new politics of climate change are reviewed. Also: fiction from Kazuo Ishiguro, a look at diplomats’ critical role, Britain’s social history — and a round-up of the best thrillers and more
A deft dystopian fable about the innocence of a robot that asks big questions about existence
The Austrian author’s graveyard stories of a town’s history reveal how our lives boil down to a handful of choices
Sergio Olguín’s latest gripping tale, tenacious heroines, plus murders in Africa
The second novel by the Ghanaian-American writer offers a powerful perspective on addiction and race
Are modern men facing a crisis of masculinity?
Correspondence home serves as an enlightening, venturesome epistolary vehicle to revisit the heyday of the YBAs
An occult-tinged mystery-romance steeped in Irish folklore; a sophisticated magical tale; and the very unmagical world of social-media
The sensitive mind of a film-maker provides a dreamlike tour of an Italian city in this brief but memorable novel
Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel is the latest in a flourishing genre about living through the internet
The final book in the acclaimed Buckmaster trilogy leaps in to the 31st century with the search for a fabled city
Two smart sci-fi debuts in ‘Radio Life’ and ‘The Stranger Times’ and a London split in two in Louise Carey’s ‘Inscape’
This debut novel follows three characters caught in the maelstrom of contemporary Indian politics
Weighty questions underlie the wackiness and misadventures of a temp’s 23 jobs and 18 boyfriends in this surreal fable
A timely study of individuals living through the tumultuous Spokane Free Speech riots of 1909
A displaced family serves as a vehicle to examine the Protestant-Catholic conflict of the French Wars of Religion
After a vintage 2020 for the genre, follow-ups to earlier debut novels get 2021 off to a full-blooded start
A healer-monk recounts his Chaucerian adventures across the plague-blighted land of medieval England
Four family tales about escape and revenge crackle with dark forces
Family tragedy meets magical realist fantasia in the Australian author’s novel of love and loss
The Australian novelist on his country’s ‘toxic’ approach to climate change, the Murdochs — and the Booker win that saved him from ruin
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