Review: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)

A short, seething and immaculate novel about what it’s like living in Israeli occupied Palestine.

Review: Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock

An intriguing fantasy drawing on forest myths that is burdened by an unfortunate attitude to women.

A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”

A potent depiction of a time and a place, and seething critique of corruption.

An accomplished novel that forensically examines misogyny in all its forms.

Another unpredictable and unsettling novel from the latest flourishing of Aboriginal writing.

A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.

An ambitious novel about war and memory.

A tale of despair, illness and poverty that captures the swooping highs and devastating lows of life.

The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.