Liz Nugent’s novels bring outsiders and unhappy families into sharp focus, and her latest, Our Little Cruelties, tackles the last taboo of the ‘bad mother’ head on

This grab-bag of a book does a good job of building a character portrait of the legendary Australian artist and writer

Columnist, playwright and memoirist Hilary Fannin’s first novel is a finely told story of love and nostalgia

Andrew Gimson profiles the men who have taken charge of what one called the ‘lonesomest’ place in the world

It was Catherine the Great who first saw the potential for Russia to become an influential musical nation while also establishing the country as a great and often brutal European power

This collection of Paul Krugman’s columns will be useful for economics students, but other readers might be put off by the relentlessly angry tone of the writing

Hilary Mantel masterfully builds tension in the conclusion of her acclaimed historical trilogy

Mhairi McFarlane’s new novel is not your average flighty romantic comedy

The French superstar economist has many ideas about inequality in society and how capital should be shared fairly, but we might all profit if he would get to the point

The author’s flash memoir recounts episodes from an unusual life. Here, he delves deeper into one such story: tracking down his birth father

The author of bestseller The Hunting Party has drawn comparisons to Agatha Christie, and with a new book on the shelves and another on the way, her work rate looks set the match the legendary crime writer too

Eoin Colfer’s first fantasy novel for adults is a coming of age page-turning thriller

Guardian journalists argue that Tory austerity and stagnation have cost Britain ten full years of wasted potential

Marianne Lee’s debut novel is an exemplary act of reclamation and literary ventriloquism

Tom Oliver’s provocative new book dismantles the flawed logic of seeing ourselves as sovereign individuals by highlighting our interconnectedness

Former Ireland captain Rory Best’s autobiography pulls too many punches on key subjects to leave the reader feeling satisfied

Eimear McBride avoids easy categorisation with this intriguing and unconventional novel that journeys inside its heroine’s mind

The former Speaker of the House of Commons has written a smug, long-winded and ultimately tedious memoir

The Irish writer’s latest work, containing no fewer than 1,001 chapters, is no ordinary novel

Featuring yet another exclusive event gone amok, Lucy Foley’s second crime novel – while a good read – is a bit overly similar to her first