While this list spans novels and non-fiction and reaches a wide range of subjects, one thing that seems to bind many of them is change, choice and decision making; the consequences of taking – or not – the ‘other’ path when the road forks. There are meditations on music, education and death as well as dreamy portraits of Miami, Sicily and Dublin. From new novels by acclaimed writers Rachel Cusk and Douglas Stuart to a shattering memoir by Siri Hustvedt and a stellar short story collection byhellip;

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