International fiction
Ghost Music by An Yu
You’ve just woken up. Your dream, which was once so vivid and tightly held in your grasp, has now slipped through your fingers as your body begins to awaken more by the second. All that’s left are whispers of memories…
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez & Megan McDowell (trans.)
Deeply unsettling yet riveting, Our Share of Night is the latest contribution from Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez to the Latin American horror genre. Tying together Argentinian folklore with occult canon, Enríquez creates a vivid world backdropped by political violence and…
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
To paraphrase Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol, the mother-in-law was dead to begin with. Laura Lamb, complex, manipulative mother of Ralph, has taken her own life in the basement of his childhood home. Now Abi is left to…
Illuminations by Alan Moore
Alan Moore is the big beardy guy who gets pointed at when I’m asked, ‘Hey, who singlehandedly transformed superhero comics into dark, gritty and occasionally poetic narratives back in the 1980s?’ Moore’s re-envisioning of the genre brought superheroes’ flaws to…
The Passenger & Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
It is more than 15 years since Cormac McCarthy’s last novel was published, and for those of the faith the reward is rich indeed. Not one, but two novels published simultaneously in this, his 89th year.
In The Passenger…
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
You are not just in safe hands with Women’s Prize winner Kamila Shamsie, you are in the hands of an artist. Her prose is seamless, her plotting propulsive and her characters are cleverly and richly drawn.
In Best of Friends…
She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa & Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)
She and Her Cat is a collection of Japanese short stories centred around the power of connection one can have with their pets. In classic Japanese style, it evokes a slice-of-life feeling. While reading this book, I felt as if…
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
I don’t know about you, but Elizabeth Strout’s character Lucy Barton speaks to me and for me. And by that, I mean, her inner dialogue matches my own thought processes so often that reading about her is like sitting down…
The Unfolding by A.M. Homes
The Big Guy is a smooth talker, a networker, and he’s got a plan to take back control of his country. It’s the 2008 American presidential election, and the Big Guy’shorse, John McCain, has lost the race to Barack Obama…
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Meet Fabienne and Agnès, the heroines of The Book of Goose and a pair of adolescent, antisocial girls in 1950s rural France. The two best friends start a game of writing a booktogether, where Fabienne comes up with the story…
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