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With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation UK, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. In 2024, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending fiction. From Samantha Harvey’s spellbinding Booker winner Orbital to…

The acclaimed Norwegian author explores the impact of childhood trauma in this portrait of a life lived in fear

In the book, characters exist, sort of, but they’re mostly artists, and they’re almost all named G

The world is turned upside down in an experimental novel about art, observation and making stories

From a novel sequence that dispenses with much of what we expect from fiction to fearlessly honest memoirs of motherhood and divorce, Cusk is a challenging writer. But also a genius

With this freewheeling examination of creation, gender and art, the bold and original Cusk is ever more determined to write about life precisely as she finds it

Spanning almost 40 years of a woman’s life, ‘Two Hours’ has all the highly aestheticised self-scrutiny of Rachel Cusk, only much more amusing

Navigating the extreme gap between a woman’s life and the one she imagined for herself, the writer’s third novel is concise, rigorous and heartbreaking

From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a mother