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A history of the last century fuelled by America’s global dream; Orlando Figes on the past that shapes Putin’s rule in Russia; new fiction from William Boyd, TC Boyle and John Boyne with the sequel to ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’; how Serge Diaghilev made modern ballet; literary gold dust at an antiquarian bookseller — plus a review of Alan Garner’s booker-shortlisted ‘Treacle Walker’
The Booker-shortlisted novel merges quantum physics and mythology in a moving story of healing and wonder
The sequel to ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ paints a complex portrait of Bruno’s sister through decades of inescapable guilt
The author’s latest action-packed life-spanning novel never pauses for breath
Boyle’s latest collection is at its sharpest in present-day parables about global warming and identity politics
Writer who redefined historical fiction was ‘one of the greatest English novelists of this century’
Sharp, witty and fiendishly plotted, the bestselling author’s latest book evokes interwar London with Dickensian flair
In the ripping yarn of a Scot setting out to seek his fortune in the 1720s, Buchan’s novel does what all good fiction should
The follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning ‘Less’ takes its hapless hero on another misadventure-filled trip
Undercover agents deliver a 2022 James Bond reboot and shadowy threats from Alaska to Berlin
The author on ‘girlfear’, friendship — and why her new novel echoes her own journey from Pakistan to Britain
The bestselling author’s latest historical novel follows a manhunt for king-killers in the aftermath of England’s civil war
Yiyun Li’s fine but unsettling novel merits comparison with the acclaimed Neapolitan Quartet
The master of horror embellishes a familiar mystical realm with profanity and gore
Everyday scenes are rendered strange and unsettling in this quietly subversive collection of short fiction
The author’s 17th novel hinges on a boy’s relationship with his teacher and its echoes throughout his life
The crime writer witnessed wartime trauma that informed her pointed takedown of the wealthy class she knew so well
Ahead of October 17’s announcement, this year’s shortlist showcases novels based on real-life events, from Mugabe’s dictatorship to the Magdalene Laundry abuses
From an ode to scholarship to time-travelling twins, plus parasites and a whodunnit set in the future
From the author of ‘Severance’ come eight short stories about alienation and immigration with a fantastical twist
This violent tale of finding a child killer in 1970s Detroit is less a whodunnit than an exposé of its white middle class
The author sidesteps cliché to reveal the inner world of a 16th-century Italian noblewoman
An ageing A-team of proto-fascist sympathisers band together to defend conservative values
The new novel from ‘The Old Drift’ author asks clever, compassionate questions about reunion, redemption and mixed-race identity
A story of forbidden teenage love, an erotic novel that reads like a modern update of the Marquis de Sade, and plenty more to savour
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