Colombian American
Originally self-published in 2008, word has built around this mammoth debut, stuffed with incident, about a New York public defender.
• Review by Stuart Kelly
• Podcast interview: Sergio de la Pava Photograph: Brian Harkin
American
A network of deceptions comes to light as a jailed husband tries to explain to his ex-wife why he abducted their six-year-old daughter.
• Review by Sadie Jones
• Meet the author: Amity Gaige
Photograph: k/Anita Licis-Ribak
Canadian
A sequel, of sorts, to the Canadian poet's 1998 Autobiography of Red, this verse novel reinvents a character from the little-known Greek poet, Stesichorus, as a contemporary teenage boy
• Review by Sarah Crown
• News: Anne Carson joins TS Eliot poetry prize shortlist
• A life in writing Photograph: Random House/Jonathan Cape
Irish
A fragmented stream-of-consciousness account of maternal bullying, sibling love and sexual assault, this dark Irish debut has been called 'an instant classic'.
• Review by Anne Enright
• News: McBride wins inaugural Goldsmiths Prize Photograph: Galley Beggar Press
American
Satirical short story collection which skewers the absurdities of modern life.
• Interview by Emma Brockes
• Hari Kunzru reviews Tenth of December
• Podcast interview Photograph: Chloe Aftel
British
Following on from Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat, this is the last in Gardam's trilogy about the lives and loves of three children of empire, now in rural retirement
• Review by Tessa Hadley
• Jane Gardam interview Photograph: Victoria Salmon
American
The fifth novel in Haruf's cycle centred on the fictional town of Holt explores the pain, compassion and humanity of ordinary people through a plot centred on the death of a local hardware shop-owner.
Photograph: Michael Lionstar
American
A book 'supercharged with ideas – futurism, fascism, industrialisation, American land art, pornography', which ranges from turn-of-the-century Alexandria to the 70s New York art world
• Review by Hermione Hoby
• Rachel Kushner interview Photograph: Lucy Raven
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