Through Miller’s lyrical writing, Circe transforms from a sweet, overlooked goddess to an extraordinary witch banished by Zeus to a deserted island. The result, in Silas House’s modern retelling of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, is one of the kinder, gentler page-turners you’ll encounter. Even the most disorienting novel is a reminder that you are more than a frayed nerve ending flailing across the Internet—that you, a somewhat coherent person, exist. Rao’s greatest feat is weaving despair with hope, revealing that redemption is possible while still respecting the weight of past trauma. To revisit this article, select My⁠ ⁠Account, then View saved stories. She wanted to blow apart the idea of authorship. To order a copy for £11.04 go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Tackling everything from motherhood to religious extremism to grief, these books deliver enthralling tales that are as entertaining as they are powerful. With the Cinderella character positioned as a generally good if privileged fey girl bound by classist patriarchal expectations as well, All the Ever Afters is not an inversion of fairy tale archetypes but rather a searing illumination of the cultural artifacts that force us to think in terms of such archetypes in the first place. The fates of the two characters converge as the manuscript draws the malevolent interest of an academic corporation with a lust for surveillance. She wanted no other woman to be like her. Gordon Burn did this with the summer of 2007 in Born Yesterday: The News As a Novel . Jojo Moyes wins the Best Fiction award for her third book in the Me Before You series (the first book was adapted into a tearjerker of a movie). She asks what it is like to be alive when the old order is dying. This is the story of a crazy lich who possesses an internal game system and brings catastrophe to the entire world. The fuse is lit. Or she writes as Kathy. Everywhere, Groff’s distinctive prose style tugs at the surfaces of things, revealing the alienness underneath. This memoir, by the daughter of Steve Jobs, is sensitively written and crammed with spicy first-look anecdotes about the Apple co-founder and his family. Hadn’t it?” With Warlight, Michael Ondaatje reveals the color of the postwar period and, perhaps, the temper of our times. —Frannie Jackson, Girls Burn Brighter is the required heartbreak readers need in 2018. Will’s attempts to save Phoebe only alienate her further, until she takes part in a terrorist attack on American soil. The fragments of the McCann case, floods, the assault in Glasgow airport, Damien Hirst’s $50m diamond-encrusted skull gave us a snapshot of how news shatters. In between, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp, cast out of his own congregation after coming to the aid of two gay men, goes on the lam with his son rather than sacrifice their relationship to an acrimonious divorce. I haven’t brushed up on my Helen DeWitt. If you only read one novel on this list, make it this one. Ada, a Nigerian girl who moves to Virginia, sees herself as an ogbanje—an Igbo spirit that often takes plural guises—born into a human body. —Alexis Gunderson, In her first work of fiction, writer Olivia Laing blurs the lines between her own biography and her protagonist’s to capture the frenetic anxiety of 2017. —Bridey Heing, Warlight’s protagonist is Nathaniel, a researcher for the U.K.’s Foreign Office reflecting on his wartime childhood from the relative “safety” of the late 1950s. Only she isn’t Laing. In the second half, Amar, a Muslim-American economist, is detained at Heathrow Airport. Olivia Laing tests the limits of fiction in this extraordinary debut novel. Kathy is no longer alone, but caught up. It gives her freedom to move – Kathy’s gift, after all. Ecological disaster, Libyan coastguards shooting at refugees. Crudo centers on Kathy, who has just turned 40 and is soon getting married, as she navigates her own changing life against the backdrop of Brexit, the Trump residency, the migrant crisis, climate change and the myriad other catastrophes that dominate the news cycle. A woman liveblogs her rape on Instagram. I devoured it like a thriller, standing in a pool in New Orleans one weekend this summer, crying all the while. If nothing else, you’ll be less inclined to take art and artists (and Michael Bay’s vision of Transformers as feeling beings) for granted going forward. She can embody Kathy. Nazis in Charlottesville and Hungary. But their relationship becomes strained when Phoebe joins a Christian cult led by a charismatic and manipulative man. The Incendiaries is rooted in Kwon’s own experience of losing her faith and follows college student Will, who falls in love with fellow student Phoebe. She got married, she had a luxurious holiday in Italy. “Convenience Store Woman,” by Sayaka Murata. She is simply one of our most exciting writers, who has explored through her work loneliness, alcoholism and art in The Lonely City and The Trip to Echo Spring. A put-upon professor, also trans, discovers Sheppard’s memoirs and adds his own annotations, which are alternately risqué, cerebral, and poignant. In spite of doubt. “The city still felt wounded, uncertain of itself. —Alexis Gunderson, Inspired by 20th century Chinese history, The Poppy War kicks off R.F. —Josh Jackson, Southernmost begins as an almost Biblical flood threatens a small town in Tennessee and concludes in the calm sea air of Key West. Last summer, Olivia Laing wrote Crudo in “real time”, whatever that might mean in the perpetual present of accelerated social media.

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