The Nobel prize-winning author on exposing injustices, the postcolonial literature explosion, and giving up on gardening

In his memoir Leaving Home the Curious Incident author revisits the traumas of his childhood with humour and wincing honesty

A car-crash fascination drew Benjamin Myers to write a novel about the German actor’s infamous stage show

The Hungarian novelist’s political dystopias bear the unmistakable imprint of his country’s communist past

The International Booker winner pays tribute to his plantsman father, a radical in Communist-era Bulgaria

The Book Society brought reading matter to the masses, and its larger-than-life hosts helped transform the publishing world

To Rest Our Minds and Bodies gives a gen Z spin on wallflower tropes, with fresh and exciting results

A compelling tale of triplets raised by three ‘mothers’ brilliantly evokes a dystopian 1970s England

Chinese-American author Yiyun Li’s unsparing account of losing two young sons to suicide is a courageous testament to love

In Graham Swift’s beautiful collection, a dozen short stories track the lingering impact of conflict on ordinary lives