John Self

In Earth to Earth, John Cornwell unpicks the gruesome, murderous events on a Devon farm — and how the famous poet tried to suppress his findings

Glen Smith was a very good guy and a great Santa Fean.

Sayaka Murata’s eyebrow-raising new novel is set in a future Japan of artificial insemination and suppression of arousal

Rediscover eight of the finest works of fiction that are celebrating their centenary this year, from Jeeves and Wooster to the Painted Veil

Notes to John is a collection of the writer’s jottings about her sessions with a psychiatrist. She didn’t think them worth publishing when she was alive — and she wasn’t wrong

This is a book of fiction explaining why he has stopped writing fiction. How very Murnane

The American writer follows the misadventures of a prince, a trans teen, an undercover cop and more in this tightly wound tale

In her autobiographical novel Look at You, the Irish-Trinidadian writer Amanda Smyth portrays the life, loves and losses of an island-hopping woman

Best Friends by Andrew Meehan, a gentle, off-kilter tale about a late-life love, is a joy to read

A headspinning novel from Japan alongside a high concept tale from Denmark, and a French account of migrant tragedy … our critic weighs up the contenders