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  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    ReviewBooks
    The best books of the week

    Antony Beevor’s sweeping history of Russia’s revolution and civil war, an intriguing look at the stats behind cricket, two provocative new insights into female sexuality, the decline of Roger Federer, Sandra Newman’s dystopian world without men, a second novel from Candace Carty-Wiliams — plus new titles on climate and the environment

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    People Person by Candice Carty-Williams — gone missing

    A nasty break-up and its repercussions put the spotlight on fractured siblings and their absent father

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    The Men by Sandra Newman — a world without the Y chromosome

    An intriguing social premise — the sudden disappearance of men — descends into an unconvincing personal psychodrama

  • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
    ReviewTelevision
    The Flight Attendant, series 2 — Kaley Cuoco returns as magnetic, mysterious heroine

    The series on Sky/Now careers from screwball comedy to high-stakes thriller to childhood drama

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine — mid-life and teenage anxieties cross in Dublin

    A sensitive and affecting novel about a day in the lives of two women facing heart-rending choices

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Jokha Alharthi: ‘It is dangerous to see fiction as documentation’

    The Omani author’s new novel traces her country’s rapid modernisation but she insists that it offers a parallel reality rather than a factual guide

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Best new thrillers — explosive tales of spies, lies and danger

    Fast-paced tales of intrigue from Leningrad to Lisbon. Plus echoes of George Smiley — and an illustrated edition of le Carré himself

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Review
    Privilege by Guinevere Glasfurd — the fight for freedom of expression

    Set during France’s Ancien Régime, this engaging novel harnesses our sympathies in a picaresque search for truth

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    ReviewBooks
    Fight Night — a visceral yet witty foray into family trauma

    Miriam Toews’s eighth novel tackles birth, life and loss through the eyes of a daughter, mother and grandmother

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    Review
    You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead — sharp flashes of life

    These short stories tread similar rewarding territory as her thrilling Booker-shortlisted novel ‘Great Circle’

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Nilanjana Roy
    The female gaze and its empowering transformation of mythology

    Agency replaces submissiveness when women are recast as protagonists, rather than victims or peripheral characters

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    ReviewScience fiction books
    Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima — interplanetary, quite extraordinary

    Finally translated into English, this 1962 story of aliens seeking to save mankind blends high and popular literature in provocative ways

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Either/Or by Elif Batuman — a complex coming of age

    The novelist continues her quirky, semi-autobiographical story of student life in this amusing sequel to ‘The Idiot’

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Review
    The Perfect Golden Circle — men behaving mysteriously

    Set during the hot summer of 1989, Benjamin Myers’ atmospheric novel follows two troubled souls on a mission to create ever more elaborate crop circles

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    ReviewScience fiction books
    From teleportation to triffids revisited — our sci-fi round-up

    Alongside dystopian visions from writers today comes a clutch of classics from master of prescience John Wyndham

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    The Chosen — an evocation of Thomas Hardy’s widowed grief

    Elizabeth Lowry’s novel conjures not only the writer, but also the wife whose death inspired his most moving poetry

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    The Geometer Lobachevsky — mapping out the mind’s eye

    Literature meets engineering as Adrian Duncan’s protagonist seeks patterns of meaning in the world he surveys around him

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Trespasses — politics made personal amid Northern Ireland’s Troubles

    In her debut novel, ex-chef Louise Kennedy brings tension, hope and a female perspective to a story of sectarian conflict

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Review
    Fresh starts — a round-up of the best debut fiction

    Past, present and multiple characters interweave in standout new stories of family bonds and betrayals

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    The Great Passion — what was it like to hear Bach’s music at the time?

    In recreating the premiere of the ‘St Matthew Passion’, James Runcie transports us to a richly imagined musical world

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Nilanjana Roy
    The gift of Rabih Alameddine

    The stories of this year’s PEN/Faulkner award-winner are both enchanting and full of political fury

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Review
    Here Goes Nothing — the afterlife in the suburbs of hell

    Steve Toltz’s novel features a mordant, witty misanthrope who finds there is life after death — and it’s a lot like his native Sydney

  • Monday, 18 April, 2022
    Review
    The best new crime books — a peril-packed round-up

    The latest sleuthing and skulduggery from Lindsey Davis, Don Winslow, Deon Meyer and more

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    Review
    The Young Pretender by Michael Arditti — what Master Betty did next

    An imagined memoir of a 19th-century child star is a scintillating study of fame’s dark side

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Review
    Glory — NoViolet Bulawayo’s Orwellian allegory of dictatorship

    Like ‘Animal Farm’, the Zimbabwean author’s second novel plays with language to weave a timely fable about truth and tyranny

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