A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes audiobook review – vintage crooks and conmen
Samuel L Jackson’s narration does full justice to this grimly comic novel from the mid-century master of New York crime
Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde review – Lagos magic
This energetic debut about dreamers, misfits and otherworldly beings creates a queer Nigerian phantasmagoria
No Hard Feelings by Genevieve Novak review – another hot-mess-millennial novel
A twentysomething frets over friends, romance and work in a debut that fails to say much new or profound about why young women can be so unhappy
International Booker prize shortlist delivers ‘awe and exhilaration’
The final contenders for the £50,000 prize for translated fiction – five out of six by women – could see Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk win a second time
Metronome by Tom Watson review – fragile hopes of escape
Exiled to a remote island, a couple struggle to survive in this atmospheric dystopian debut
Top 10 difficult marriages in fiction
Whether they induce schadenfreude or pangs of recognition, mismatched couples have inspired brilliant novels by authors from Evelyn Waugh to Jean Rhys
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume review – an astonishing prose poem
Two people withdraw from city life and retreat to the countryside in this tender chronicle haunted by loss
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review – grit and longing in Glasgow
Young love drives dreams of escape in this immersive follow-up to the Booker-winning Shuggie Bain
Young adult books round-up – review
Jacqueline Wilson returns with a novel about teen pregnancy, while tales of arranged marriages, a killer super-flu and girls who turn into dragons all impress
We Move by Gurnaik Johal review – a colourful tapestry of multicultural lives
Johal weaves stories of Southall citizens with economy and skill in this compelling debut collection
In brief: The Secret World of Weather; Song for the Missing; España – reviews
Tristan Gooley revives the lost art of weather-watching, Pierre Jarawan explores family trauma in Lebanon and Giles Tremlett condenses the history of Spain
The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga review – extraordinary tribute to motherhood
The author’s account of her early years in exile and her family’s massacre in the Rwandan genocide is a timely reminder of the horrors of war
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review – another weepy from a writer on a roll
The Booker winner’s follow-up to Shuggie Bain – a similarly stirring tale of precarious lives on a Glasgow council estate – proves his debut was no fluke
David Peace: ‘Publishers should be less risk-averse’
The novelist on being too literary for crime fiction and too ‘crimey’ for literary fiction, and the mysterious death that concludes his Tokyo trilogy
Douglas Stuart on Shuggie Bain and his tough start: ‘Living with an alcoholic, there wasn’t much I didn’t see’
After his autobiographical debut, about a gay boy growing up in 80s Glasgow, comes another tale that draws on his childhood. Could his glittering fashion career ever have kept the Booker-winner from his roots?