If you like reading different genres by different authors, what can be better than Dublin International Literary Award? This year the shortlist provides some very promising authors and I’m sure you’ll find a copy in our libraries.

Compass (Mathias Énard, trans by Charlotte Mandell, Fitzcarraldo Editions)

History of Wolves (Emily Fridlund, W&N)

Exit West (Mohsin Hamid, Hamish Hamilton)

Midwinter Break (Bernard MacLaverty, Vintage)

Reservoir 13 (Jon McGregor, Fourth Estate)

Conversations with Friends (Sally Rooney, Faber)

Idaho (Emily Ruskovich, Vintage)

Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders, Bloomsbury)

A Boy in Winter (Rachel Seiffert, Virago)

Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie, Bloomsbury)