Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi review – electrifyingly truthful. When does self-determination become selfishness? This intelligent Booker-shortlisted debut examines the legacy of a toxic mother

The Guardian: Writers & Lovers by Lily King. A kind of gorgeous agony.  From romance to debt, the struggles of an aspiring writer are observed with humour and pathos

The Guardian: Braised Pork by An Yu. Realism and surrealism intertwine as an alienated young woman finds herself on a journey from Beijing to Tibet.

The Guardian: The Art of the Body by Alexander Allison. Cruelty versus compassion.

Worn with love. Sartorial memoirs.

The richly imagined story of an affair between Le Corbusier and Sri Lanka’s first modernist architect, Minnette de Silva