Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of contemporary Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by the award-winning translator Sophie Hughes.

The discovery of a decomposing body near a village in rural Mexico is the outcome of a series of events related in reverse-chronological order in this multi-perspective story of a witch's murder, portraying lives shaped by misogyny and machismo. 'Melchor wields a sentence like a saber' Idra Novey (author of "Those Who Know").