The plot: Two versions of the same story are interwoven – in 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Road crossing, but gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, travels to East Germany and buries his father. The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton)
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Lanchester reveals with slow, steady control the cruelties of his strange new world and then socks you with their philosophical implications.” Read the full review. What we said: “It’s a clever, clairvoyant concept. A young conscript patrols the Wall, a barrier built along the British coastline, looking for “Others” who might appear at any moment from the sea. The plot: Set in Britain in the not-too-distant future after a climatic event known as “the Change”, movement between countries is outlawed. The Wall by John Lanchester (Faber & Faber) But that certainly doesn’t mean it’s not a world that is possible, and worth celebrating.” Read the full review. What we said: “Girl, Woman, Other is about struggle, but it is also about love, joy and imagination … For many readers, it’s not a familiar world – this is a Britain less often depicted in fiction. There is no overarching story, but the book is more widely about the connections that can be made between disparate humans. There’s Amma, a lesbian socialist playwright non-binary Morgan, who uses the internet to navigate gender identity and Winsome, an unhappily married migrant from Barbados. The plot: The novel follows 12 characters, most of them black British women, some living in different decades while others overlap. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton) What we said: “Readers who have been exposed to the work of, say, Sarah Manguso and Rachel Cusk, or even Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, will recognise Ellmann’s dauntless cataloguing of desires and hopes and fears, and her refusal to be anything other than endlessly curious and utterly self-directed.” Read the full review. The plot: The 1,000-page monologue of an angst-ridden homemaker in Ohio, in which she frets about love, loss and the state of the nation – which unfolds almost entirely in a single sentence. Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (Galley Beggar Press) What we said: “It all adds up to a distinctive but uneasy mix of morbid humour, love story, slashfest, family saga and grave meditation on how abusive behaviour is passed down through the generations.” Read the full review.
The plot: A Nigerian woman is forced to clean up after her younger sister when she develops a taste for killing her boyfriends.
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My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Atlantic Books) For this is no liberal forgiveness tract for naughty boys: it is a plunging spiritual immersion into the parlous souls of wrongful men.” Read the full review.
What we said: “What distinguishes this book beyond its humour, terror and beauty of description is its moral perception. The plot: Late at night in the Spanish port of Algeciras, two ageing Irish gangsters, Charlie and Maurice, are waiting on the boat from Tangier so they can continue their search for Charlie’s daughter. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry (Canongate) What we said: Nothing yet! But it is set to be one of the biggest books of the year.
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