Under Pressure, collection of short stories by Bosnian writer Faruk Šehić - Until the outbreak of war in 1992, he studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men.
Anne Serre’s The Governesses - an uncanny and unsettling story about three governesses who look after some boys in a gated chateau in an unnamed and dreamlike place
I am half way through reading all of Penelope Fitzgerald's novels - each one a slice of perfection - The Beginning of Spring is a great story of Russia just before the revolution takes hold.
Animalia - Jean-Baptiste Del Amo - like one of those John Berger 'pastoral' novels (Pig Earth, for example) - its focus is on the life of a farm and and its inhabitants over a century - grim and pitiless and miserable.