Collecting and translating the work of the radical theorist Alaa Abd el-Fattah for the first time in English, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated is a book about the importance of ideas, whatever their cost. Though Alaa is still in prison as this book goes to press, his vision for our world in crisis reverberates.

Second-hand Time is the major work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, a magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, a brilliant, poignant and unique portrait of post-Soviet society out of the stories of ordinary women and men.

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others.

Brilliantly written, engaging and exhilarating, Essayism Trilogy brings together Brian Dillon’s loose trilogy on the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking – a major work by one of the great essayists of our time.

Considered by many to be the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate’s defining work, The Years is a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman, a book that invents a genre – the collective autobiography – to capture the passing of time.

Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Claire-Louise Bennett’s startlingly original first collection slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving.

Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics – ‘An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family’ that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.

Septology is a transcendent exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, and a radically other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic and utterly unique.

Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season is a formidable depiction of Mexico and its demons, and a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice.

With Flights, a novel interweaving reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.