Departure(s) by Julian Barnes At university we read Great Expectations and The Mill on the Floss, but only afterwards did I discover Julian Barnes—along with other British writers such as John Fowles, Hilary Mantel, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith and others. Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot impressed me immensely;

Last One Out by Jane Harper Few writers can depict small towns in Australia better than Jane Harper - the eucalyptus trees, the wind, the heat and boredom. Patrick White, an Australian author who received the Nobel Prize for Literature. also wrote about small-town Oz, and about people's

Crux by Gabriel Tallent In rock climbing, “crux” refers to the most difficult part of a climb—the crux of the matter. This is the exceptionally talented Gabriel Tallent’s second novel. His first, My Absolute Darling, drew considerable attention. I didn’t expect to enjoy a novel about teenagers