The 2024 prize winner talks about setting her novel aboard the orbiting ISS to observe the beauty of our planet — and warn of its fragility
Now aged 90, the playwright returns with a novella set in a nursing home during Covid
A bestselling French comic book argues we should forget renewables — our only option to address global warming lies in splitting the atom
Johanna Ekström’s notebooks, translated by her friend Sigrid Rausing, offer a moving testament to love, friendship and loss
Shanghai-based historian Paul French explores what Simpson got up to in the 1920s during a mysterious rumour-filled year in China
Cultural psychologist Michael Morris examines how tribalism can connect as well as divide, in both business and politics
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The hit graphic novel that says ditch renewables and go nuclear; Alan Bennett returns aged 90 with a novella set in a nursing home; how tribalism can connect as well as divide; what Wallis Simpson really did in China; a belated UK issue of a Jon Fosse novella from 2000; the notebooks of the late Johanna Ekström — plus our pick of debut novels and an interview with Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey
This slim, haunting, mesmeric novel from the Nobel Prize winner is finally published in the UK
From the Swiss Alps to Norway via Paris and London — bad dads loom large in this current crop of fiction
Judges praise ‘beautiful and miraculous’ novel that tells the story of astronauts on the International Space Station
We need publishers to focus on good stories, not adult ideals and celebrity authors
The novelist talks greyhounds, Joanna Lumley and her typewriter, Monica
Finesse your craft skills with these festive titles
Gavin Francis’s meditative travelogue takes in history as well as geography, exploring how bridges can also be barriers
No one likes to admit it — but life’s lottery has a big role to play in success
Have your say about the likely — or most deserving — winner of one of the literary world’s most prestigious awards
Despite being fixtures of student reading lists, writers and their insights are often undervalued by universities
An enjoyably free-roaming collection of essays and poems explores everything from the courage of Colette to the influence of Freud
Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s non-fiction bestseller, the series is a sweeping and affecting history of the Troubles
The discovery of a mysterious newborn baby girl lies at the heart of this lyrical novel set in 1960s rural Ireland
The great Japanese author revisits familiar territory in a typically meandering novel that explores the fragile nature of reality
An eloquent analysis of the country’s economic struggles argues that long-term political culture is to blame
We’re in the midst of a listening revolution — and a new debate over text versus voice
The death of the guidebook has been long predicted — but the ‘South American Handbook’ keeps on trucking
A selection of the best titles to shed light on America’s decision to return the former president to power
A New York exhibition pays homage to a Black woman who passed as white and assembled the financier’s private collection
A collection of dark stories that are perversely funny and piercingly perceptive
A tale of the Loughborough print shop behind a children’s publishing phenomenon
Orlando Reade examines John Milton’s biblical poem from the viewpoint of 12 historical figures, from Malcolm X to Jordan Peterson
A collection of interlinked short stories sees the Booker-shortlisted novelist fully embrace the horror genre
Perry Anderson’s wide-ranging survey takes the measure of a century of heated debate about the 1914-18 conflict
Rebus is behind bars, Scarpetta is back. Plus murder mysteries in South Africa, France and Georgian London
His satirical instincts remained intact even as wrote on the darkest and most transgressive subjects
His memoir may have hit the charts but things are not quite how they seem
Two revealing books explore the unsung work and elusive lives of secretaries and intelligence agents on both sides of the Atlantic
Yoko Tawada’s absurdist tale explores plurality and belonging in a warming world that’s being reshaped by rising sea levels
