Book lovers can look forward to a wealth of fiction, biographies, memoirs, poetry collections and topical non-fiction this season. Here are five upcoming works you’ll likely be hearing about.

The Disappearers, Marlon James

Marlon James’ fantasy series Dark Star was a showcase for his extraordinary and boundless imagination. In The Disappearers, he returns to his native Jamaica and to the murderous reality of his Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings. The new novel, longlisted for the Booker, is framed around the horrifying beating in 1988 of eight gay men who had been rehearsing for a play. James weaves together humour, popular culture, compassion and some very hard experience. “I refuse to believe there is any lesson to be learned from suffering an atrocity,” James writes, “other than always be on guard for the ways people turn on you.”