International fiction
BRAT: A Ghost Story by Gabriel Smith
An astounding debut combining dark comedy, ghostly affairs and terrible heartache, Gabriel Smith’s play on autofiction presents an eerily clever story within a story within a story.
Gabriel’s father has just passed away, his mother lives in a care home…
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter is a dreamlike novella that delves into the complexities of human life with an unsentimental and merciless gaze. Set against the backdrop of a small town in Montana in the 1890s, Barry weaves a…
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Catherine Newman is known for her nonfiction, and her debut novel, We All Want Impossible Things was published to acclaim in 2021. I think Sandwich is even better, and thus far, it’s my favourite book of 2024.
Rocky (Rachel)…
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
The bond of a sibling is a difficult thing to express in words. In Blue Sisters, Coco Mellors manages to communicate the tumultuous, vicious, all-consuming love that sisterhood involves. It follows three estranged sisters: Avery, a recovering addict and…
Mrs Gulliver by Valerie Martin
I felt such immense sorrow when I finished reading this delightful and utterly entertaining novel. It has everything I need in it: a narrator that I adored, clever and fast-witted women, a battle of the sexes, and a tropical background…
How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix
How does a relationship fall apart? And how does it fall back together? These are the questions Myriam Lacroix poses in her darkly comedic lesbian love/hate novel. Each chapter throws the two lovers, Myriam and Allison, into a different universe…
Exhibit by R.O. Kwon
Jin feels stuck. She’s at a crossroads in her career as a photographer, and lately she’s been unsatisfied with her marriage to her college sweetheart, Phillip. Phillip has begun expressing his desire for children, which Jin has never felt any…
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
Anna lives in an apartment in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris. It’s 2019. In her late 30s, she’s recently suffered a painful miscarriage and has deferred returning to work as a psychotherapist. Her husband David is a lawyer currently living…
Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen
In a world past the brink of apocalypse, Cass is raising her three children in The City on her own. Her husband Nathaniel is a medic in a war in a foreign land, leaving her alone in a world where…
Parade by Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy was so innovative and exciting that it transformed how many people think about fiction. Cusk’s new novel successfully continues her inventive style.
It starts with a famous artist who begins painting scenes that are upside down…
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