Anne Tyler is famous for writing extraordinary novels about ordinary people. Her latest is no different

Book review: Frances Macken explores female friendship and ambition

Marianne Lee’s charming debut fictionalises the life of an 18th-century Irish botanist

Book review: Debut from Alice Lyons an intriguing, innovative story of loss and acceptance

Review: Madeleine Watts’s gripping debut sets mental decline against ecological disaster

Review: Élisa Shua Dusapin’s beguiling debut charts interior and exterior landscapes in South Korea

Kath's fertility journey is a mean, teasing kind of loneliness, shared with another person, and not shared at all

Book review: The protagonist of Michelle Gallen’s captivating debut is an isolated woman with agency

Jenny Offill’s latest novel of ideas draws deeply on conversations, media and emails

Book review: Claire Beams has written a memorable story about women’s minds and bodies

Molly Aitken’s evocative prose immerses us in island life and motherhood

Book review: Deepa Anappara shifts skilfully between different narrative voices

Book review: Francine Toon explores themes of parental negligence and childhood loneliness in story set in a small village in the (...)

Book review: Steph Cha’s deftly written novel explores Los Angeles in 1991 and 2019

Book review: Anne Cathrine Bomann's charming debut is packed with insight

Book review: Seishi Yokomizo’s ‘locked room’ thriller is translated into English

Book review: Hanne Ørstavik brings us remarkably close to her characters in such a short time

A look at the brightest debuts and collections from this year's emerging authors

Book review: Nana Oforiatta Ayim explores themes of cultural appropriation

Book review: Cristina Rivera Garza’s latest novel follows a woman in search of lost love

There’s no painting by numbers in Catherine Chung’s deft novel set in the world of maths

Book review: Ho Sok Fong has written an inventive, troubling second collection

Karina Sainz Borgo’s journalistic training is on show in a story of loss and survival

Book review: Nicolas Giacobone’s first novel is about a screenwriter held captive in a basement

Taffy Brodesser-Akner delves deep into the gender inequalities of sex, marriage, divorce and online dating in modern day New York

Book review: Sophie White has written a clever, entertaining debut

Black identity and disability are examined in William Melvin Kelley’s rediscovered classic

Tina Callaghan’s gothic mystery set on an island off Ireland heaps drama upon drama

Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s debut is gripping and entertaining with a strong feminist bent

Review: Sue Rainsford explores themes of sex, death and the female body

Review: Aunt Lydia’s story is a highlight of the long-awaited Handmaid’s Tale sequel

Herman Koch’s tale of a man’s descent into paranoia is entertaining if a bit long-winded

Annaleese Jochems unleashes an original debut set in cramped quarters in New Zealand

Book review: Kate Weinberg’s intelligent debut is set in a vividly rendered English university

Book review: EM Reapy, from Mayo, has a lot to live up to after her award-winning debut

Book review: Anna Hope’s novel looks at the intersecting lives of three friends in London

Lauren Aimee Curtis’s original take on teenage pregnancy makes for a vibrant debut novel

Barbara Bourland’s colourful takedown of the New York art world has plenty to say for itself

Review: Tim MacGabhann’s debut is billed as a literary crime novel but lacks killer writing

Richard Roper has crafted a compelling mystery in this clever and uplifting debut

David Brennan’s clever Irish debut presents a deeply unsettling world

Geovani Martins, a new literary star from Rio, doesn’t shine as brightly as the hype

Lauren Acampora’s debut novel, set in the Holywood bubble, is gripping and nuanced

Book review: Claire McGlasson’s debut novel maps out the intriguing world of the Panacea Society

Book review: Wayétu Moore's imaginative debut gets lost in plodding prose

Well-written debut novel raises questions about cultural appropriation

Jessica Andrew’s debut novel marks her as a writer to watch

Ahmad Danny Ramadan’s uneven debut novel reflects troubles of a beleaguered minority

Pajtim Statovci’s second novel tells the story of two Albanian boys struggling with shame

Chip Creek’s vibrant debut puts two innocent newly-weds in a place where anything goes

An off-shore wind farm in the near future grounds this tale of loss and survival

Adrian Duncan’s quietly reflective novel brings to life an engineer’s work in Berlin

Jan Carson’s captivating novel should hopefully earn her international recognition

Book review: A captivating historical debut about a slave girl on trial for a double murder

Jenny McCartney’s debut about a friendship in Northern Ireland is let down by the writing

Sarah Henstra has an acerbic style that works well for her takedown of campus frat culture

Sarah Davis Goff excels in describing macabre detail in clear and visual prose

Debut collection from Mullingar author has great wit, depth and momentum

Saskia Vogel’s debut novel is told through the eyes of an actor grieving her father

A captivating debut novel gives a flavour of life in the American service industry

Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian’s short stories chronicle modern sexual politics

Dark arts and a dark patriarchy in 17th-century Lancashire from Stacey Halls

A charming, offbeat debut about two teenage girls living on a remote Scottish island

A beautifully written debut from Claire Adam about sacrifice and violence in contemporary Trinidad

Book is heavy with weight of too many voices and lacks discernment as it switches between them

Mazen Maarouf’s collection of stories weaves the domestic with the horrific

Oyinkan Braithwaite writes about sisterly love and murder in a light-hearted manner

Tales of an unexpected nature combine horror with fairy tales and a feminist focus

The best debuts and emerging voices from Ireland and abroad in 2018

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah tackles race in America in this vibrant, inventive book

Jamie Guiney’s collection of stories is a mixed bag, with some stark moments of clarity and emotion

Debut collection of 21 short stories whose cleverness is hampered by a lack of restraint

Rediscovered classic from a black American writer imagines a different Deep South

Niviaq Korneillson’s debut novel is an uneven tale of the lives female twentysomethings in a country whose backdrop is largely une(...)

Amy Arnold debut examines trauma and the resulting breakdown in communication

A young woman's diagnosis with breast cancer becomes surreal B-movie material

Owen Booth’s original debut gives a profound account of life, family and fatherhood

A debut collection of stories about young people starts well but finally fails to convince

Alia Trabucco Zerán explores repercussions of the Pinochet era on the next generation

Stylish writing and interesting subject matter are lost in a plodding narrative

A second novel by the Syrian author proves to be a laboured love story rife with cliches

Samantha Hunt’s stories are smart, benevolent explorations of complex emotions

Wendy Erskine is a startling new voice from Belfast that comes alive in short story format

Review: This tense debut about steroid abuse is very much of the moment

A dog and two teenagers bring an inventive second novel about commune living to life

Darragh Martin’s debut delivers a history of the last 30 years with heart and humour

A debut collection tells interlinked stories of race, friendship and sexual violence

Boyne's latest novel A Ladder to the Sky is inspired by the literary world and the writer's experience of an "unhealthy" crush on (...)

English translation of a masterful, deeply mysterious novel about female isolation

The astute, captivating story of expat life of an American woman in Brazil

Novel about people on the cusp of immortality makes a case for quality over quantity

Debut novel about a letter detective builds an enchanting world but gets lost in subplot

Review: Beagin’s debut novel should be a hit with readers and awards lists alike

Sakaya Murata writes with a deadpan humour in this sure-fire hit of the summer

New fiction offers fresh perspective on the complexity of migration and displacement

There are some similarities to Highsmith and Tarte, but the execution is lacking

Paul Howarth’s stunning debut has shades of Cormac McCarthy and Patrick deWitt

A sharp and engaging tale of a millennial woman making her way in the world