The Book of Dust trilogy is brought to a complex and fitting end as Lyra battles the Magisterium over her lost imagination

This posthumously published final collection confronts mortality, alongside the world’s almost unbearable beauty

A love triangle plays out across generations in this brilliantly panoramic tale of family ties

The award-winning Australian’s deconstruction of the novel form is a rich pleasure

There are shades of The Shining and Shirley Jackson in these atmospheric short stories set around a haunted hotel in the Fens

A fascination with words and symbols provides a unifying theme in this richly ambiguous collection of short stories

This coming-of-age debut set in an impoverished Scottish coastal town is exuberantly memorable

Stories within a story tease readers and characters alike in Oyeyemi’s shape‑shifting hen weekend tale

These bruising, beautiful short stories explore the pain of lost children, along with parenthood’s more usual sacrifices – youth, romantic love and a sense of self

The third instalment in the brilliantly immersive autobiography of tragicomic creation John Cromer takes a picaresque tour of 1970s England

The chaos and horrors of early motherhood are vividly, remorselessly evoked in a woman’s monologue to her son

Exploring female friendship, fame and identity, this coming-of-age tale follows two young women in 1960s New York

A boy is thrown together with his great-uncle in this examination of freedom and family by the author of Room

A novelist looks back at her younger self in 1970s New York in this smart investigation of misogyny, authority and the nature of fiction

Set during the first world war, the last instalment in Pears’s exemplary series powerfully conjures a sense of bereavement for a world gone by

Ancient rituals and present-day abuse converge in a brief and brilliant novel with its roots in England’s deep past