The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is published in hardback by Canongate, priced £16.99 (ebook £11.99). Available now.

Between life and death, there is a library.

When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library she has a chance to live all the lives she’d always regretted not pursuing.

With the help of an old friend, she feels she can now track down her perfect, so far elusive, life.

The Midnight Library is arguably Haig’s best work to date; once inside the library, you really won’t want to leave.

Life-affirming without falling into cliché, the plot draws on Haig’s own mental health battles, and experiences around suicide and depression.

It is a work that will resonate with so many, is thoroughly thought-provoking and beautifully written.

It fully lives up to the (well deserved) hype that surrounds it.

l All Men Want To Know by Nina Bouraoui is published in paperback by Viking, priced £12.99 (ebook £7.99). Available now

An introspective work of autobiographical fiction, Nina Bouraoui’s narrative shifts seamlessly between a confused 18-year-old in 1980s Paris, and the narrator’s childhood in Algiers, Algeria, which became independent from France in 1962.

Offering disjointed snapshots of a life torn between two competing identities, All Men Want To Know is a deeply personal exploration of cultural and personal identity, sexuality and belonging.

Written in a dreamy, lyrical style, the narrative gives a sense of unravelling as much as it does coming together.