A debut novel full of heart with places and people that feel alive

The anthology is a radical account of how Irish literature, and Ireland itself, was changed

Ruskovich grapples with truth, memory, love, loneliness, grief and the fragility of long-held beliefs

Stefano Bizzotto adds emotional heft to tales previously told with judicious selections of archival writings and interviews

The author, a London Times reporter, imagines a chilling future for the UK under a Farage premiership

There is plenty of gore and retribution in new works by Joanna Wallace, K T Nguyen, Robert J Harris, Thao Thai and Akane Araki

Three great reads from Courtney Maum, Jayne Anne Phillips and Calla Henkel

Lieberman points out that losing weight is not simply the opposite process of gaining weight

Jeyamohan’s humanist story depicts how imperial wealth depended on invisible suffering during the British Raj

Thomas seeks to repair the broken king rather than to unking the broken world

Italian author’s Premio Strega winner examines what it means to leave parents behind

Thirty years on, what is clear from The Crossroads Conference 1996 is how important the occasion was

‘We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both,’ writes Gil Durán in his stunning new work

Societal reactions don’t always arrive when you expect them to

There are faint echoes of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History but Will Maclean expands his book into stranger territory

Buy this for the cat-obsessed youth in your life immediately

A howl of rage against the denial of freedoms, and a call for resistance

Book is essentially a 400-page charge sheet of blunders and scandals that resulted from identity crisis in organisation

Dogs on Dates, by Luke Healy; The Woodchipper, by Joe Ollman; Fault Lines, by Rob Cullen; Dear Historian, by Joff Winterheart; and Children of Light, by Jean Pleyers

Daring debut novel explores themes around publishing, identity and bland writing trends