Women's lives

A Petrol Scented Spring

Ajay Close

Preparation for the Next Life

Atticus Lish

Return to the Dark Valley

Santiago Gamboa

Translated by Howard Curtis

Roman Elegy

Sabine Gruber

Translated by Peter Lewis

Run You Down

Julia Dahl

The Shore

Sara Taylor

Sleeping on Jupiter

Anuradha Roy

Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything

Daniela Krien

Translated by Jamie Bulloch

Sophia, or the Beginning of All Tales

Rafik Schami

Translated by Monique Arav and John Hannon

Special Envoy

Jean Echenoz

Translated by Sam Taylor

The Story of My Purity

Francesco Pacifico

Translated by Stephen Twilley

Sweet Caress

William Boyd

Ten Women

Marcela Serrano

Translated by Beth Fowler

Tench

Inge Schilperoord

Translated by David Colmer

This House Is Mine

Dörte Hansen

Translated by Anne Stokes

This Place Holds No Fear

Monika Held

Translated by Anne Posten

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

Helle Helle

Translated by Martin Aitken

This Too Shall Pass

Milena Busquets

Translated by Valerie Miles

Tightrope

Simon Mawer

The Transmigration of Bodies

Yuri Herrera

Translated by Lisa Dillman

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Natasha Pulley

Woman at 1,000 Degrees

Hallgrímur Helgason

Translated by Brian FitzGibbon

10:04

Ben Lerner

Academy Street

Mary Costello

After Before

Jemma Wayne

All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews

American Innovations

Rivka Galchen

Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay

The Blazing World

Siri Hustvedt

The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber

The Children Act

Ian McEwan

The Dark Flood Rises

Margaret Drabble

Delicious!

Ruth Reichl

The Dogs of Littlefield

Suzanne Berne

Elizabeth Is Missing

Emma Healey

Florence Gordon

Brian Morton

A God in Every Stone

Kamila Shamsie

The Hollow Ground

Natalie S. Harnett

How to Be Both

Ali Smith