John Self

This debut novel explores forbidden gay romance in 1980s China and New York’s Chinatown

The US film-maker and artist’s wide-ranging second novel is a funny, sad and revealing journey of maternal self-discovery

Feeling trapped in midlife? Try this witty, shrewd collection from the Belfast writer

This follow-up, set 20 years on, kicks off with a marriage in crisis and skilfully conveys how blind we are to our own motivations

Romanian author and his translator Sean Cotter on significance of receiving world’s biggest prize for single work of fiction published in English

A young German woman and her older lover elope to Europe in this sweet, sunlit novella

The Irish novelist turns his hand to the western in an atmospheric tale of romantic runaways from a 1890s US mining town that has an epic feel despite its brevity

A promising novelist returns with a tale full of drama. Pity it all happens off stage

Inspired by the real-life abduction of a wealthy businessman, the second novel from the Fleishman Is in Trouble author is a lip-smacking tale of family, wealth and self-destruction told with relish