Dutch journalist Michel Krielaars infuses a bleak subject with verve

One book concerns itself with long-suffering fans, while other focuses on love affair between players

Novel delicately portrays the journey of a migrant caught between dreams of success and the harsh realities of life in post-war England

Now released in the UK and Ireland, Gornick’s memoir of city life, friendship and gender inequality explores the joy and challenges of living alone

A woman escapes her manipulative creep of a husband. This powerful book asks: what now?

While recent struggles occupy the authors, a deeper examination of working-class politics in 20th-century Ireland would have been revealing

Including Let the Light In by Jenny Downham and Louis Hill; After Life by Gayle Forman, and The Boy I Love by William Hussey

Caroline Darian’s book is an uncomfortable read, albeit one with great immediacy, that is let down at times by its translation

Among the French economist’s arguments is that ‘no credible solution to the challenge of global warming is imaginable without a drastic reduction in inequality’

Nine contributors’ fresh engagement with Lee’s main themes is testament to the ongoing significance of his writing

An engaging coming-of-age novel about a young artist whose development feels, even at its end, unfinished

Books by Jane DeLynn, Don Conroy and Jenny Slate

Tessa Hadley’s storytelling and linguistic dexterity mines the imbalance between the sexes

Rachel Hope Cleves serves up racy account of Anglo-American and French dining proclivities

Far from the autobiography it is described as, Francis uses recollections to reflect on current events

New novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elly Griffiths, Makana Yamamoto and Michel Neva

Seán Ó Hoireabhárd offers clear narrative and succinct analysis of political evolution of Irish kingship

With exceptionally clear prose Searls aims to draw wider conclusions about the nature of the translator’s task from an attentive reflection on his own translations from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch

Martina Evans reviews works by Alvy Carragher, Ian Duhig, Grace Wilentz and the late Gboyega Odunbanjo

A sumptuous volume about the French painter Pierre Bonnard, with scores of captivating reproductions