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Central Europe and its nervous east-west gaze; Simon Schama’s epic history of disease and vaccination; Essex and its notoriety as a county of vulgarity; a memoir by former poet laureate Andrew Motion; the story of a UK microchip giant; fiction by Lorrie Moore, Naoise Dolan and Andrew Crumey — plus Alex Clark’s round-up of audio books
A fictional last opera by the composer takes centre stage in an ambitious, entertaining novel full of comic brio
A slender novel from one of our greatest writers is a reminder to prize every moment we get with her on the page
Naoise Dolan’s second novel explores the ups and downs of romantic love in not entirely convincing fashion
The novel’s female rector protagonist faces a difficult decision in a world of fast-changing mores
The Argentine author’s award-winning novel revels in black humour on misogyny, abuse and disability
A constellation of characters shines in the Booker-nominated author’s caustic campus-set tale of aspiring artists
Three books — including a novel — overturn assumptions about how politics, economics and science should combat global warming
Jen Beagin’s new novel is a brilliant satire of therapy-speak and wellness
Wang Xiaobo’s semi-autobiographical account of the final decades of the 20th century in China is both subversive and hilarious
Author Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel on ‘Time Shelter’, the first Bulgarian book to win the prize
The sequel to ‘The Country of Others’ finds its Catholic-Muslim couple facing the upheavals of Morocco in the 1960s
A Downing Street inspired satire by Boris Johnson’s former adviser pales in comparison with political reality
A comic prodigy who relished vulgarity and made low-life subject matter a speciality, he was always a literary critic at heart
Vividly drawn characters blaze trails across small-town Arkansas and Nazi-occupied Oslo
The British novelist whose swagger and love of literary pyrotechnics produced dazzling, sardonic prose
Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s novella takes readers to a tight-knit Albanian community in the mountains of southern Italy
The writer’s fifth novel conjures a new plague and its catastrophic effects in journal entries addressed to a cephalopod
Claire Kilroy manages to articulate both the profound and commonplace reality of early motherhood
A story about a mute young Korean woman and her tutor who is slowly going blind explores the physicality of communication
An allegory of East Germany that explores the optimism and failure of the socialist experiment
Plus the latest from Kate Griffin, SA Cosby — and a superb translation of a Simenon classic
Clemens Meyer’s belatedly translated debut pitches us into a world of adolescent anarchy where the old order has crumbled
Maryse Condé’s novel uses a messianic figure to explore her favourite themes through a sometimes too truncated anecdotal style
Tan Twan Eng’s third novel takes its cue from Somerset Maugham and a real-life murder case
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