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Hillary Clinton follows Bill into thriller territory; murder in Sixties LA; short stories from Sara Paretsky; and a valediction for Montalbano
The horrors of Hoxha’s Albania, John le Carré’s final novel and new ones by Anthony Doerr and Lauren Groff, two giants of economics, and the nature of consciousness — plus Alex Clark’s round-up of audio books
An imagined life of a 12th-century nun and writer on courtly love brings a subversive slant to life in a ‘flawed female utopia’
The Pulitzer-winner’s new novel follows a tale through time and makes the case that all stories are, in the end, the same
Le Carré’s ability to inhabit the deepest recesses of his characters is on sparkling display in his final completed book
The third Lucy Barton novel adds another satisfying piece to the character’s complex jigsaw
This vivid portrait of a preacher’s family in the 1970s Midwest shows the novelist at his perceptive best
The return of Lemony Snicket, spooky stories, prehistoric and rainforest adventures and fairy tale frolics are among the latest releases
His latest novel examines the life of the German writer Thomas Mann, and the intense yearnings that hid behind his air of cool detachment
A Covid-like plague provides the backdrop for this meditation on themes of bodily pain and pleasure
The Irish author’s latest short story collection focuses on middle-aged men coming to terms with a changing world exacerbated by Covid
A man struggling for meaning and a livelihood in the Chicago suburbs fills a narrative on the ills of 21st century
The confessional style that served the Norwegian writer’s My Struggle novels so well falters in a more fantastical setting
The Nobel Prize winner’s third novel takes aim at the country’s ‘deteriorating’ political and civil values, but he is heartened by young talent in the arts
A return to the Night School; murder in the bayou; a desert island decision; and rebellion in Nazi Germany
This debut story collection brings a poet’s sensibility to a surrealistic, nihilist writing tradition
A satire by Thatcher’s former speechwriter trips through the corridors of power and reflects on the outrageous characters that make their living there
An overview and collected reviews of the shortlisted works for the prestigious award
Prestigious literary award focuses this year on novelists who delved into ‘forces larger than themselves’
The Pulitzer-winning novelist presents a neighbourhood in the civil rights era at once familiar and opaque to the untrained eye
Vampires in verse; a homage to the slasher movie; bodies that contain multitudes; and a dystopian dilemma
This rediscovered novel from one of the giants of 20th-century literature turns an elegy for a friend into something more
This novel deftly sidesteps the clichés of drug abuse and conveys the complexities of loving someone who can’t love you back
A boy tormented by ecological catastrophe taps into the calmness of his late mother via AI in the new novel from the author of The Overstory
Ian Rankin brings William McIlvanney’s last book to fruition; Ann Cleeves begins a new series; Richard Osman returns; and virtuoso violence on the reservation
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