Madness is Better Than Defeat by Ned Beauman
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Beauman follows his quirkily brilliant debut Boxer, Beetle with a complex and occasionally delirious new novel.
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Winter by Ali Smith
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The second in Smith's Seasonal Quartet, Winter echoes with many voices co-existing within one story.
Read MoreGood Neighbors by Joanne Serling
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A first-rate suburbs-fiction that serves as an elegant but savage indictment.
Read MoreLullaby by Leïla Slimani
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Winner of the Prix Goncourt last year, this character study alternates between the perspectives of its two central female characters.
Read MorePhone by Will Self
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A book that is, in addition to all its stylistic pyrotechnics, a magnificent portrait of fragility.
Read MoreA Bygone Present
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At the heart of Elmet is the idea that societal systems aren’t designed to protect the vulnerable – women, the poor, the landless, the uneducated.
Read MoreWorlds Undone
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A pseudonym, though it obscures, is not always successful as a bid for obscurity. Witness Elena Ferrante: while her work stands on its own, the added mystery of authorial absence has no doubt contributed to the years-long international firestorm of publicity and speculation.
Nevertheless, a pen name may still give personal shelter to the author who chooses it.
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