A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the chaos ...

Beloved characters reinvented in graphic novel coming later this year – just as interest rockets in all things space ...

With echoes of Balzac and Proust, this tale of obsessive love evokes the dangers and delights of forbidden desire ...

Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, other recipients include S Shakthidharan, Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Kei Miller ...

Writer, campaigner and a determined advocate for animals ...

The Rot is nominated for the $60,000 prize for Australian women and non-binary writers, alongside books by Geraldine Brooks and Miranda Darling ...

A New Yorker writer traces the web of deceit that led a troubled teenager to his violent death ...

Sex, booze and subterfuge in the story of an extraordinary friendship at the heart of MI6 ...

This garrulous, charming story of a young man stuck in a daycare centre for disabled adults offers a vital insider’s perspective ...

The journalistic adventurer and trans trailblazer is revealed as brilliant, prolific and deeply selfish ...

The Life of Pi author Yann Martel explains why his new retelling of Homer’s Iliad offers the ideal antidote to the age of Trump ...

The Egyptian-Danish-Australian journalist’s second novel spans continents, following a Palestinian teen as he comes of age during the Syrian civil war and is forced into exile ...