Bianca Lucarelli

We All Come Home Alive by Anna Beecher review – the pain of grief and joy of living | Autobiography and memoir

My Inconvenient Duke by Loretta Chase

The Loves of My Life by Edmund White – sex on the brain… and in the bathhouse | Autobiography and memoir

Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett review – a moving treatise of family dynamics | Fiction

Quarterlife by Devika Rege review – an intimate epic set in Modi’s India | Fiction

The Artist by Lucy Steeds review – dextrous portrait of female fulfilment | Fiction

Oromay by Baalu Girma review – long-overdue translation of a modern classic | Fiction in translation