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‘The Lying Life of Adults’ by Elena Ferrante
The Neapolitan author returns to characters driven by compulsions and tensions of class
‘The Time of Our Lives’ by Robert Dessaix
The memoirist’s latest, surprisingly unsettling instalment
‘Little Eyes’ by Samanta Schweblin (trans. Megan McDowell)
Intimacy and privacy blur as people adopt cybernetic pets inhabited remotely by others, in this disturbing speculative fiction
‘What Are You Going Through’ by Sigrid Nunez
The late-life author of ‘The Friend’ delivers a chastening and discursive novel of mourning
The debut novel from the screenwriter and director of ‘Being John Malkovich’, ‘Synecdoche, New York’ and more is the zippiest postmodern, self-referential doorstop you’ll ever read
‘A Room Made of Leaves’ by Kate Grenville
The author of ‘The Secret River’ returns with a canny twist to fictionalise the life of Elizabeth Macarthur, wife of the Australian pioneering settler
‘The Rain Heron’ by Robbie Arnott
An unsettling near-future tale of soldiers hunting a mythic bird by ‘the Tasmanian Wordsworth’
‘Minor Detail’ by Adania Shibli (trans. Elisabeth Jaquette)
The Palestinian author’s haunting novel about an atrocity committed by Israeli soldiers in 1949
‘The End of October’ by Lawrence Wright
A ‘New Yorker’ journalist’s eerily prescient novel about public-health officials fighting a runaway pandemic
‘The Trials of Portnoy’ by Patrick Mullins
The finely detailed story of the legal fight in Australia against the censorship of Philip Roth’s ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’