December 1, 2020
‘Jack’ by Marilynne Robinson
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History and suffering matter in the latest instalment of the American author’s Gilead novels
Helen Elliott
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October 1, 2020
‘The Time of Our Lives’ by Robert Dessaix
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The memoirist’s latest, surprisingly unsettling instalment
November 1, 2020
‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams’ by Richard Flanagan
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The Booker Prize winner’s allegorical new novel about the permanence of loss
September 1, 2020
‘Little Eyes’ by Samanta Schweblin (trans. Megan McDowell)
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Intimacy and privacy blur as people adopt cybernetic pets inhabited remotely by others, in this disturbing speculative fiction
August 1, 2020
‘A Room Made of Leaves’ by Kate Grenville
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The author of ‘The Secret River’ returns with a canny twist to fictionalise the life of Elizabeth Macarthur, wife of the Australian pioneering settler
July 1, 2020
‘The Rain Heron’ by Robbie Arnott
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An unsettling near-future tale of soldiers hunting a mythic bird by ‘the Tasmanian Wordsworth’
June 1, 2020
‘The End of October’ by Lawrence Wright
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A ‘New Yorker’ journalist’s eerily prescient novel about public-health officials fighting a runaway pandemic
May 1, 2020
‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’ by Cho Nam-Joo (trans. Jamie Chang)
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The coldly brilliant, bestselling South Korean novel describing the ambient harassment and discrimination experienced by women globally
April 1, 2020
‘Actress’ by Anne Enright
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In a theatre setting, the masterly Irish writer considers the melting, capricious line between the truth and the fake
March 1, 2020
‘The Bass Rock’ by Evie Wyld
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The Miles Franklin–winning author’s latest novel expands on her interest in the submission and consequential fury of women amid the impersonal natural world
November 1, 2019
‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood
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The Booker Prize–winning sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is an exhilarating thriller from the “wiliest writer alive”
September 25, 2019
‘The Weekend’ by Charlotte Wood
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The Stella Prize–winner returns with a stylish character study of women surprised by age
September 1, 2019
‘The Godmother’ by Hannelore Cayre
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A sardonic French bestseller about a godmother, in the organised crime sense of the word