In at the Deep End by Kate Davies review – a Sapphic sexual odyssey

A young woman goes in search of a more exciting sex life in this fresh and funny lesbian coming-of-age adventure

Four Words for Friend by Marek Kohn review – why language matters more than ever

Is the British reluctance to learn languages partly to blame for Brexit? The case for multilingualism

In this novel written from a US prison, an army veteran powerfully evokes the horrors of heroin addiction and the Iraq conflict

Unabridged and twice as long, the updated version of Murnane’s 1976 novel lacks the subtlety of his later works

Masterpieces one moment, worthless the next – a hoard of ‘Van Goghs’ are at the centre of an irresistible story set in 1920s Berlin

The lives of three disparate young people converge at a jihadi training camp in Mosul in this searching and timely novel

A quest to find out how women have experienced pregnancy and motherhood over the centuries ends with a political vision

The author’s compelling follow-up to Grief Is the Thing With Feathers is a missing-boy story that taps into the strangeness of English folklore

A neuroscientist’s brilliant debunking of the notion of a ‘female brain’ could do more for gender equality than any number of feminist manifestos

This frenetic rewind for Agatha Christie’s murder tale hovers between Hollywood homage and send-up

Ginzburg unearths the loves and losses in a postwar Italian village in her compelling 1961 novel

The French counterpart to Raymond Briggs’s When the Wind Blows gets a welcome reissue – and not a minute too soon

Adam Higginbotham’s thriller-like account of the disaster and Kate Brown’s study of its aftermath make chilling reading

A candid memoir charts coming to terms with disability, a novel imagines a dystopian future and Zadie Smith analyses contemporary life and culture

A squabbling US couple set out to document the Mexican migrant crisis in Luiselli’s cautious attempt at introducing autofiction to the real world