This comedy centred on an artist who loses everything after a drug-fuelled rant about Aussie myth-making is let down by its narcissistic protagonist Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email ...
Author of sci-fi epic The Three-Body Problem – newly serialised by Netflix – on ‘the greatest uncertainty facing humanity’ and how finding a secret copy of a Jules Verne novel inspired hi...
A bleak, brilliant moral maze of a novel about ethical dilemmas, from global poverty to the climate crisis In the middle ages, morality would be transmitted in images. Churchgoers would commonl...
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4 APRIL 1974: WL Webb reviews a reissue of Alfred Döblin’s classic novel about a small-time crook in Weimar-era Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin, translated by Eugene Jolas (Secker &...
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The minutiae of a day in the life of a mostly happy student are brilliantly conveyed in this wryly comic debut This debut novel follows a day in the life of Annabel, an Oxford student writing a...
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This debut novel tries to grapple with motherly abandonment over three generations of women in one family, but it feels underdeveloped Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In Emma Darra...
The US author’s impressive first novel, a forceful and involving tale of eight young female fighters, punches above its weight What a pleasure it is to find a novel that’s unlike anything e...
Survivors’ stories provide gritty testament to the moral confusion of life in the aftermath of atrocity in the Pulitzer-nominated Native American’s eye-opening second novel Tommy Orange , a...
The Palestinian author’s second novel in translation is an affecting portrait of one displaced family’s inescapable relationship with the past Huzama Habayeb’s evocative novel about a dis...
Soon-to-be ex-wives kill time in Reno in an evocative period tale; a TV writer ponders beauty and attraction in a nuanced romance; and a woman uncovers her family history through gardening with h...
Epic new TV adaptation of the 1975 novel reignites interest in the exploits of the Kent sailor William Adams On a backstreet in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo, between a seafood wholesaler an...
Three girlhood friends grow into the worlds of art, tech and activism and on towards a divisive, fascist-run nightmare in the American writer’s ambitious follow-up to The Leavers The first se...
A north London man of letters slides down the social ladder in the novelist’s pitch-perfect tragicomedy of manners whose cast list connects the capital’s many worlds, from a hip-hop-loving ha...
The Suede bassist and author on writing without a safety net, terrifying himself for his next novel and which of the Thursday Murder Club books – by his brother Richard – he likes best Mat ...
F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel was a flop until a 1926 staging became a Broadway smash It is the quintessential novel of the hedonistic jazz age, a roaring 20s story about the mysteriously wealth...
Are we living through the end times? Dorian Lynskey interrogates our insatiable appetite for doom - and asks why each generation is so drawn to the idea that they will be the last It is a sunny...
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton; Moral Injuries by Christie Watson; The Hunter by Tana French; How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin; Every Move You Make by CL T...
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Young women come together in Nevada for a tournament where ambition and self-expression clash with brutal reality For those of us who consider ourselves fans there is no sport quite so pure, s...
Jones’s latest novel is complex and delicate, charting echoes in the lives of a PhD student in 90s Cambridge and the Heart of Darkness author, who she is fascinated by The latest novel by the...
The author’s second novel considers a gay teacher’s struggles with intimacy and heritage ‘Our People. Scattered to your four winds … They land, but do they grow where they fall?” Th...