This novel about a shrimp farmer can only add to Wood’s reputation as one of Britain’s most engaging contemporary novelists

Part of the attraction of this beguiling tale is the author’s curiosity about different ways of knowing

Ghost Wedding by David Park combines exceptional dialogue and deft prose in story of two couples a century apart

McBride’s style is distinctive, a wholly original exploration of what is possible with language and fiction

The Nobel Prize winning author is vigilant against the dangers of forgetting in a memorable, probing and exquisitely detailed novel

Duncan’s is an utterly distinctive voice in contemporary Irish literature

With exceptionally clear prose Searls aims to draw wider conclusions about the nature of the translator’s task from an attentive reflection on his own translations from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch

Reviews of works by Alejandro Zambra, Toon Tellegen, Gaëlle Bélem and the Marquis de Sade

Kevin Barry, Aingeala Flannery, Lucy Caldwell and more contribute to ambitious collection

Two women, each with their own traumatic past, are thrown together in this persuasive debut novel

Sally Rooney applies her formidable emotional intelligence to complex human entanglements, dealing deftly with desire and experimenting with form

Reviews of: The Empusium; Effi Briest; Playboy; Marigold Mind Laundry; and Annihilation

Maylis Besserie’s novel lays bare the cruelty of Bacon’s father as seen through the eyes of the family’s domestic servant Jessie Lightfoot

Reviewing works by Diego Marani, François-Marie Luzel, María Bastarós, Sasha Salzmann and Anna Stern

Excellent works published in English by Artem Chapeye, Giuliano da Empoli, Stefan Zweig, Agustín Fernández Mallo and Stéphane Carlier