Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).

The world’s favourite whisky glass, made by Scots company Glencairn Crystal, has launched a collection of gripping crime fiction short stories by up-and-coming crime authors. The anthology ...