Author Jay Carmichael revisits 1950s Australia where, for a young gay man, escaping from a small town to the city comes with its own complexities

The American novelist Hernan Diaz audits the silence of great wealth in a story of four parts presented as novel, autobiography, memoir and diary

The powerful debut novel from Irish author Louise Kennedy is a masterclass in emotional compression

Robert Lukins’ second novel takes a Brisbane woman to Nebraska, where an inheritance sparks a change in character as well as in fortune

In an essay collection, the mysterious author of the Neapolitan novels pursues the “excessive” to counter patriarchal literature’s dominance

The acclaimed US author’s latest novel is a 1971 church drama modelled on ‘Middlemarch’

The Irish novelist’s latest ponders creativity and the unacknowledged life of Thomas Mann

Two satirical stories about fitting in, from the two-time Miles Franklin winner

The Lebanese writer’s elegiac journal captures the city’s devastating port explosion

James McAuley’s examination of four great art-collecting families and the French anti-Semitism that brought their downfall

A young down-and-out man in a New Mexico village seeks transcendence in a ceremonial role as Jesus, in this debut novel

The American author’s Austenesque latest novel, a collage of short stories, traces the common pursuit of happiness through love and money

With stripped-down eloquence, the Australian novelist delivers a raging memoir about her rape as a teenager

Edward St Aubyn tackles familiar themes – desire, drug use, psychoanalysis – via a fresh suite of characters

The philosophical thriller sequel to ‘The Sympathizer’ sends its Vietnamese protagonists to the Paris underworld