Flawed characters and toxic chemicals are woven together in Louise Erdrich’s story of three families in a Dakota farming community
The Nobel laureate cements her reputation as one of the great storytellers of our age
Alan Moore starts a five-part series set in the capital, plus a mixed-bag 1970s anthology and a lavish Michael McDowell reissue
America’s loss of faith in democracy; a history of wartime Naples; Christianity’s tangled relationship with sex; our suicidal destruction of the environment; a biography of Pamela Harriman; Sally Rooney’s impressive new novel; a cold war thriller from William Boyd; short stories by Pedro Almodóvar — plus the Booker shortlist, Suzi Feay’s pick of debut fiction and an interview with poet Caleb Femi
The Irish writer’s keenly intelligent new novel swaps her formidable female leads for two brothers summoned together by grief
An uneven collection of writing by the Spanish filmmaker veers from deep personal reflection to cartoonish absurdity
A travel writer is drawn into a world of espionage from Congo to the eastern bloc in this portrait of a vanished era
Some big names missing from a final six that includes the largest number of female authors in the fiction prize’s history
Exciting first novels cover themes from America’s racial divide to writing as therapy — and riding to the rescue in the Iraqi desert
On the 50th anniversary of her bestselling novel La Storia, we remember a writer inextricably linked to Italian political history
The author’s latest book, inspired by the intimate diaries kept by his mother, Elaine, is arguably his most mature novel yet
The American writer continues the story of his auto-fictional alter-ego amid a devastating mid-life illness
The latest novels from Attica Locke, Linwood Barclay, Simon Mason and more
The Norwegian author’s dark novel underscores how love and suffering are often bedmates
Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton finally meet in the author’s perfectly rendered world of Crosby, Maine
From Lewis Carroll to Roald Dahl and Harry Potter, Sam Leith’s engrossing book is more than a history — it’s a celebration
In Yoko Ogawa’s beautifully composed novel, a young girl tries to make sense of the world around her
Capers in Constantinople and Cornwall — plus a chilling story of espionage set in 1930s Vienna — are among the most compelling new spy novels
Virginie Despentes uses the 18th-century epistolary form to craft a modern exploration of ageing, gender and addiction
The author’s latest novel draws on Herbert Henry Asquith’s letters to aristocrat Venetia Stanley in the run-up to the first world war
Mark Haddon turns to Greek myths and contemporary narratives to examine love, genetics and animals
Familiar material becomes a page-turner in Tim Parks’s expert hands
The lauded author’s Booker-longlisted novel follows a secret agent as she monitors green activists in deepest France
Nell Frizzell’s carefully observed novel explores the messy emotions that bind siblings together
The Damned United author’s compelling fictionalisation of the plane crash that killed eight players succeeds as an elegy for society’s lost innocence