The Appointment’s darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity has not been published in the author’s home country – yet. But she wants to break the awkward silence over German history

Her venomous debut novel about a fraught mother/daughter relationship shocked India – and now it’s challenging Hilary Mantel

The author of Boy Parts is keen to stress that she is not underprivileged – and nor is she anything like her sadistic young antiheroine

‘Jake Jones’ explains what he’s revealed – and what he’s hidden – describing an unseen world of private dramas ranging from the trivial to the tragic

Her gothic debut novel, Pine, draws on childhood years in the Scottish Highlands and eerie links between patriarchy and the paranormal

The writer explains how her novel Baby grew out of distaste for the criticism of EL James’s novel – but became a story of ‘straight women’s queerness’

Lara Maiklem’s study of the rich historical traces on banks of the river grew out of a personal obsession. She explains why the hobby is catching on

Angie Kim’s debut Miracle Creek is a dissection of US healthcare and immigration, wrapped in a courtroom thriller. She talks about her son’s medical crisis, ‘goose fathers’ and Trump’s slurs

The author explains why people can’t be reduced to their economic status, and how short stories helped make sense of life in his home city of Houston

Karoline Kan’s memoir Under Red Skies charts the very different lives of three generations of women in her family. She talks about a giddying journey

The author explains how The Farm, her novel about an upmarket surrogacy service, shows ‘where we are today, pushed forward a few inches’

Alongside busy social enterprises, Moore has written a novel about Liberia’s origins in which she hopes her compatriots will recognise themselves

The 28-year-old says her often macabre stories are about how our bodies contain and betray us – and are ‘not, not horror writing’

Named after a land bridge that once connected Britain to Europe, Doggerland sees humans trapped on a wind farm in the North Sea

Blending refined aesthetics with startling self-revelation – and a fair few lies – the Irish author’s essays offer readers a compelling puzzle

The novelist looks back on the two decades it took to write her shapeshifting debut, The Old Drift, which takes in a long century of Zambian history

The novelist explains his experimental approach to the noir detective, focusing on characters traditionally forgotten, even in their down time between jobs

The Nigerian author’s darkly comic debut novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer, has become a literary sensation. She explains her struggle with the moral ambiguity of her writing

On a 6,000-mile bicycle journey along the Silk Road, the author explored the notion of wildness – the Earth’s and her own

The Leeds-born writer remembers the series of accidents that allowed him to tell a story about fatherhood that’s both funny and emotionally exposed