International fiction
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The latest novel from Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright is a gorgeously raw and expansive examination of the Madigan family. Sprawling thirty years, The Green Road follows the four children as they leave their childhood home on Ireland’s Atlantic…
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Life After Life is one of my favourite books of all time, so it was with some trepidation that I approached A God in Ruins. I was rewarded with feelings of foolishness: after all, with Atkinson you are in…
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
In Sarah Halls’ fifth novel The Wolf Border, the central subject, the wolves that will begin the rewilding of Britain, are rarely seen. ‘They are fleet or lazy, moving through their own tawny colourscape and sleeping under logs –…
Adeline by Norah Vincent
The wonderful thing about reading books is that they often lead to the discovery, or re-discovery, of a whole world of other books. This is certainly the case with Adeline, by Norah Vincent, a lovely, although somewhat melancholy, novel…
The Well by Catherine Chanter
Seeking a new life in the wake of a crisis, Ruth Ardingly and her husband Mark escape to the Welsh countryside, taking up residence on a farm known as The Well. Lush and picturesque, the couple envision a simple life…
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
Sisters Vee, Lady and Delph Alter believe their family are as cursed as the Kennedys. They have decided to end it all on 31 December 1999. In order to explain their actions they are writing a lengthy suicide letter outlining…
Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey’s impressive first novel follows 28-year-old Elyria who, without telling her husband, boards a plane from New York to New Zealand leaving behind her stable and outwardly enviable life. Seeking to ‘divorce from everything, to divorce my own history’…
The Ghost Estate by John Connell
Born in County Longford, Ireland, award-winning journalist, John Connell currently resides in Sydney. However, it is to his home town of Longford that Connell returns for the setting of his first novel, The Ghost Estate. Intended to be a…
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma’s debut novel, The Fishermen, is an outstanding addition to African literature. Fans of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun – will relish it’s distinct Nigerian placement. The sibling bond is tight between the four…
Dancing in the Dark by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Cards on the table: at time of writing I haven’t yet finished this, the fourth volume in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘autobiographical novel’ cycle. In his almost punishingly expansive style previous volumes have immersed readers, with varying degrees of reflective interjection…
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