Tillie Walden’s latest graphic novel brings back her signature super-saturated colour schemes and sprawling landscapes, but with a darkness we haven’t seen before. This touching intergenerational road trip story explores trust and trauma, with a little help from a magic cat.

When you’ve been a literary superstar as long as Rushdie, what’s left for you to write? Don Quixote, of course. In this Booker-shortlisted new novel, Rushdie demonstrates that his ability to keep a finger on the pulse of contemporary life has kept pace with his evergreen reputation.

In this new book, Fayolle takes the fragmentation that comes with family illness literally, and then some. The characters’ father becomes a larger-than-life presence in their lives, leaving a trail of useless body parts that the whole family must come together to take care of.

Stallings’ latest collection is crowded with both familiar things and things so ubiquitous that mentioning them is unfamiliar. Nowhere is this more clear than in the poem for which the collection is named, a sestina in which we witness “like” as it transforms into both subject and object.

Set in Uruguay in the 70s and 80s, this new novel offers a new take on queer love. Five women make a home for themselves in a coastal retreat amidst a turbulent and hostile political landscape.