International fiction
Anna by Niccolo Ammaniti
The world has ended. All the adults are dead, carried off by a mysterious virus known only as the Red Fever. Nobody is immune – as children begin to go through puberty, they know it’s only a matter of time…
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Tom Hazard is a London school history teacher who has a knack for bringing the past to vivid life. It helps that he’s lived through many of the historical events he teaches. He suffers from a condition called anageria, that…
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme is a slow-moving mystery that explores entangled themes of death, grief, history, family and timber. The novel follows Edvard, who grows up on a remote potato farm in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre…
Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa
Masechaba, a medical intern in a South African hospital, is a teenager suffering excruciating periods when she’s inspired to become a doctor. Her secret plan is to one day convince a colleague to give her the hysterectomy doctors refuse to…
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
From the second Frances walks into Melissa’s and Nick’s house, she notices signs of wealth, from a dark wooden bowl filled with ripe fruit to a Modigliani print hanging over the staircase. ‘Rich people,’ she thinks, already identifying herself as…
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Heads up, reader: rave review (and a surfeit of superlatives) ahead. It’s unavoidable. As a debut novel, Here Comes the Sun is staggeringly spectacular, and marks the beginning of what will surely be a remarkable literary career. I cannot recommend…
The Answers by Catherine Lacey
With The Answers, Catherine Lacey asserts herself as one of contemporary fiction’s freshest young voices; her work captures the anxiety of uncertainty and the challenges of living in a female body with immense power and ingenuity. Her debut novel…
Siracusa by Delia Ephron
What a treat it is to be in the hands of an accomplished storyteller; someone who has already provided me with hours of joy in her previous works. Ephron is, after all, the famous author of books, essays and such…
A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi
The path from stoner surfer to radicalisation seems hard to understand, but A Good Country connects those points in the journey of Reza ‘Rez’ Courdee. Born to Iranian immigrant parents in California, his childhood is one of high expectations and…
The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen
The Destroyers is a fast-paced, thrilling and engrossing holiday read. Sentences are thick with descriptors; the tight prose is rich with apt summations: ‘The imagination is a wild dog, it runs happily toward the meanest end.’
Set on Patmos, a…
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