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The award-winning author evokes a world of chaos and instability, with a multi-dimensional protagonist at its centre
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The Canadian novelist’s complex, time-travelling new novel explores trauma, loss and the lasting impact of love
Justin Torres presents a rich plot that centres around a friendship with a dying man
Anne Eekhout’s novel reimagines how Mary Shelley’s most famous novel was brought to life, with intriguing results
The Rwandan writer playfully explores storytelling and colonialism
As he did with Schindler’s Ark, the Booker-winning author again weaves a sweeping tale around historical fact
Set onboard the International Space Station, Samantha Harvey’s novel makes a clarion call for our planet
Bryan Washington follows 2020’s ‘Memorial’ with a novel about the vulnerabilities of life and connections that make us happy
From political wrongdoing in rotten boroughs to intrigue in Hollywood — plus the return of Mitch McDeere and Cormoran Strike
No tale of ghosts and scares is complete without the spooky presence of a feared familiar
This autumnal work about a professor haunted by glimpses of his late wife is a riddling but deeply felt meditation on grief
A compelling tale about tech tycoons leading the world to a cataclysmic end
The Polish modernist’s exuberant, high-octane prose is deftly captured by Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s translation
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