PW looks at 10 promising debut novels publishing this season. A strikingly varied lot, they feature characters from a 10-year-old girl in Zimbabwe to a mythological figure from Jewish folklore to mountaineer George Mallory and his long-suffering wife.

Click the links below to read this year's ten first fiction profiles:

First Fiction 2013: Elliott Holt: Soviet Spy Story

First Fiction 2013: Kent Wascom: A Different View of the Sunshine State

First Fiction 2013: Tanis Rideout: Climbing to the Summit

First Fiction 2013: NoViolet Bulawayo: A Long Journey

First Fiction 2013: Anton DiSclafani: Horses and a Heroine

First Fiction 2013: Eugen Ruge: East Meets West

First Fiction 2013: Helene Wecker: Supernatural Love

First Fiction 2013: Alexander Soderberg: Swedish Suspense

First Fiction 2013: Aria Beth Sloss: California Girls Come of Age

First Fiction 2013: Anthony Marra: Love in Wartime