Read Flights

An old woman in a Silesian village and hunters who keep dying; Tokarczuk's eco-thriller.

Jacob Frank, an 18th-century Jewish messiah, across Poland and Turkey in 900 pages numbered backwards.

A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.

A Cape Town professor loses his job and moves to his daughter's farm; Coetzee's second Booker.

A Seoul woman stops eating meat and her family cannot bear it; the Booker International that led to Han Kang's Nobel.

Steinbeck drives around America with a poodle in 1960 to see what it has become.

Kapuscinski's forty years reporting Africa, from Ghana's independence to Rwanda.

Kapuscinski's first assignments abroad with the first historian in his pocket.