The memoirist’s latest, surprisingly unsettling instalment

Intimacy and privacy blur as people adopt cybernetic pets inhabited remotely by others, in this disturbing speculative fiction

The author of ‘The Secret River’ returns with a canny twist to fictionalise the life of Elizabeth Macarthur, wife of the Australian pioneering settler

An unsettling near-future tale of soldiers hunting a mythic bird by ‘the Tasmanian Wordsworth’

A ‘New Yorker’ journalist’s eerily prescient novel about public-health officials fighting a runaway pandemic

The coldly brilliant, bestselling South Korean novel describing the ambient harassment and discrimination experienced by women globally

In a theatre setting, the masterly Irish writer considers the melting, capricious line between the truth and the fake

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

The Booker Prize–winning sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is an exhilarating thriller from the “wiliest writer alive”

The Stella Prize–winner returns with a stylish character study of women surprised by age

A sardonic French bestseller about a godmother, in the organised crime sense of the word

An emotionally eloquent novel about the necessary inheritance of strength in Indigenous women

An accidental death in a tale of immigrant generations highlights fractures in the promise of America

The French author delivers a pastoral that turns on human cruelty

The medico-writer delivers a novel driven less by storyline than accumulated observation