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

Prolific author Elle Kennedy has published her first YA novel, Thornbird, a satisfyingly twisty and swoony mystery tale

As a foster kid who became a princess, the screen siren who would now be 100 is the embodiment of the American dream

Rather than tackle all of Morris’s books, author summarises just one-third of total collection

Riley is one of our clearest thinkers

Beckett’s youthful study illuminates the intellectual development of one of Ireland’s most formidable literary talents

Timely collection covers a range of topics from gothic fiction to poetry and women of the diaspora

Authors tactfully focus on Plath’s vital hard-won poems, while their introduction affirms how she ‘taught readers to love poetry’

New books by Tony Shaw, Alan McDougall, William Kennedy and Jim Thompson