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“The Family Man,” by the novelist and poet James Lasdun, brings a literary voice and elaborate detail to a case that gripped the nation.

Partly inspired by her life, Harriet Clark’s “The Hill” portrays a young girl navigating between her beloved mother’s jail cell and the world outside.

In a new novel told in interlinked stories, Dylan Landis revisits a dauntless family she has written about since 2009.

Séamas O’Reilly’s new novel is a boisterous sendup of “prestige” media and its distortion of Northern Ireland’s complex past.

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Novels by Matt Haig, Elizabeth Strout and Carley Fortune; explosive true crime; immersive new fantasy; essays by David Sedaris; and more.

It was a blockbuster hit, yet she says she was “fired” by her publisher. After a spell in Bali, she’s back on home turf with “The Calamity Club.”

Kathryn Stockett’s prodigious second novel, “The Calamity Club,” brings together an unlikely group of spinsters, sex workers and orphans in Depression-era Mississippi.

Her new memoir, “True Crime,” traces how she survived a Southern Gothic upbringing to emerge as one of the world’s most famous thriller writers.

In “The Successor,” the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have made his country into a liberal democracy.