FictionThe Disappearers by Marlon JamesHamish Hamilton, 3 September
After a detour into mythic fantasy, the author of the Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings returns to Jamaica. This account of a brutal homophobic attack on a group of gay actors in 1980s Kingston has already been longlisted for this year’s prize.The Bridge by Colm TóibínPicador, 3 September
Twenty years on, this short novel is a sequel to Tóibín’s exquisite story A Long Winter, set around a family tragedy in the isolated Pyrenees. Now the building of a bridge brings modernity, possibility and threat to a father and son, in a spare chronicle of longing and grief.The Golden Hours by Louisa YoungMantle, 3 September
Young continues her aunt Elizabeth Jane Howard’s much-loved Cazalet Chronicles, bringing her story of a sprawling upper-middle-class English family into the swinging 60s.Switzy by Emma ClineChatto & Windus, 10 September
With dementia making him increasingly confused, David is on his way to a clinic in Zurich to end his life while he still has the capacity to make a choice. Longlisted for the Booker prize, this is a bravura portrait of a failing mind, told from the inside.The Rouse by China MiévillePicador, 17 September
