How intimate could you get with a robot? Get ready, in McEwan’s latest novel all your boundaries about who to love, who to sleep with, and how, may be challenged in this love triangle between two humans and a robot. When tech lover Charlie spends his inheritance on a robot named Adam he invites over Miranda, the woman he’s interested in, to help curate his personality. Together, they create the seemingly perfect man, whose accelerating intelligence only heightens the tension between them all.

Machines Like Me, Book Depository, $32.90

Handler is like your favourite friend who gets funnier and more outrageous with every glass of Sauv Blanc. Her new memoir delivers all the candid insights we’ve come to expect from her, and more, as she digs deep after finding herself at a low point both personally and professionally, following Donald Trump’s election. “I started seeing a psychiatrist … and I started writing things down after our sessions,” she shares, about the process behind the book. Deciding to bust out of the “privileged bubble” she lived in, she set out to out ditch her cynicism and regain hope. Along the way she discovered just how much her brother’s death had affected her and how the affection of four Chow Chows can help a hurting heart (as well as a lot of edibles).

Life Will Be the Death of Me: And You Too…, Book Depository, $36.44

Moody, bleak and beautiful, Smith’s third installment in her celebrated novel cycle, the Seasonal Quartet, responds to the divided Britain she observes all around her. Immigration, Big Tech, climate change — big topics — swirl around in Smith’s work yet are always filtered through the nuanced and forthright musings of her characters. Smith wrote these books swiftly so as to capture the feelings of a moment and the result is radical and refreshing.

Spring, Book Depository, $32.29

If you haven’t already read Porter’s debut novel Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, do not be put off the title, go read it right now and imagine Cillian Murphy playing the dad like he is in the stage version in New York later this month. But I digress, Porter brings all his signature wonder and wackiness to Lanny, his new novel, about a precocious young English boy who goes missing under the strangest of circumstances.

Lanny, Book Depository, $25.74

What does a struggling writer in New York really need? To be discovered by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, that’s what. Or by Jackie, or Mrs. Onassis, as she’s known in the office at the major publishing house where she’s an editor. Jackie’s fallen for James Smale’s autobiographical novel about his dysfunctional family. But when a salacious long-held family secret is revealed James struggles to finish the book. Its Jackie, with her wily ways, who guides him through the process and toward accepting some hard truths that set him free. This novel is perfectly charming like Rowley’s best-selling earlier novel Lily and the Octopus.

The Editor, Book Depository, $20.35

This gripping tale is set inside an elite boarding school where Pierre LaVerdere, a brilliant, yet perverse teacher is known for his enchanting classroom tactics and unusual teaching techniques. He may have a little too much interest in his students but they’re mostly equally enamored by how he catapults them into the adult world. When LaVerdere runs into one of his former students by accident in Upstate New York, those past lessons reverberate in the present with disturbing consequences.

A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, Book Depository, $31.83