


His story collection Lot won last year’s Dylan Thomas prize this deft debut novel explores the complications of family and a gay relationship on the rocks. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)Ī family grapples with mortality while Australia burns, in a magical realist fable about extinction and Anthropocene despair from the Booker-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North. In the year’s buzziest debut, a black American millennial tackles the difficulties of work, love, sex and being seen for who you really are. Photograph: Tejinder Singh Khamkha/NETFLIX

The Netflix adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger.
