Sarah Moss ’s novels pick you up and don’t let you go. From Ghost Wall , her superlative account of abuse and ancient rituals, to Summerwater , about a nightmarish day spent holidaying by a Scottish loch, her books are ultra-immersive must-reads that – often in just 200 pages or so – deliver chilling insights into everything from family life and masculinity to the hostilities and political undercurrents of post-Brexit Britain.

So, which are the books that have inspired her with their own narrative economy? Here, Moss shares her favourite novels under 200 pages.

Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld

“Appelfeld’s Holocaust allegory was first published in Hebrew in 1978 and translated into English in 1980. It is set in an Austrian holiday resort in 1939, where most of the hotel’s residen

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