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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
A frazzled dachshund; a rebellious goatherd; standing up to your family; a dystopian vision of marriage and more HOT DOG BY DOUG SALATI, PUSHKIN, £12.99 When the summer city is just too hot, ...
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey audiobook review – coming of age in a time of fear
Two girls set out to catch the Yorkshire Ripper in this vividly narrated novel of adolescent curiosity and confusion Set in Yorkshire in 1979 shortly after the election of Margaret Thatcher, Je...
Claire Kilroy: ‘My moral compass has turned 180 degrees on Lolita’
The Irish author on the allure of Nabokov, the comfort of Yeats and the power of Winnie-the-Pooh MY EARLIEST READING MEMORY Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty when I was about eight or nine, sitting...
Thom Gunn by Michael Nott review – sex, drugs and San Francisco
A sensitive account of the poet’s wild life on the West Coast The subtitle of this biography alludes to a line from Hardy that Thom Gunn used as the epigraph for his last collection, Boss Cu...
Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good by Eley Williams review – intriguing short stories without neat endings
A fascination with words and symbols provides a unifying theme in this richly ambiguous collection of short stories A courtroom artist sees the features of her date in the face of a defendant....
Five of the best books about conspiracy theories
From Covid misinformation to the JFK assassination, these compelling reads explore how conspiracies seduce believers Effective conspiracy theories draw in believers by appearing to give a glimp...
The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk review – Windrush children who were left behind
A young girl is bereft when her mother goes to England, in this vivid debut of family sacrifices and secrets On an unnamed Caribbean island in the 1960s, a girl named Wheeler, the youngest of t...
Paul Foot: A Life in Politics by Margaret Renn review – revolutionary intellect or posh trot?
A lively biography of the public schoolboy who became a scourge of corrupt politicians and dodgy businessmen Not long before he died in 2004, Paul Foot wrote an obituary of his friend Tony Cli...
The Only Way Is Up by Polly Toynbee and David Walker review – climb every mountain
A savage indictment of years of Conservative rule and how social democracy can set it right No sooner had the exit poll dropped on election night than commentators were warning that Labour had ...
Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects by Zandra Rhodes review – wigs, turbans and fly spray
The fashion designer provides an uneven account of her multicoloured career Ever since arriving in swinging 60s London with a bag full of acid-coloured geometric prints and a signature style co...
Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan review – bravura small-town chorus
The inner thoughts of an Irish community speak volumes about the state of the nation in Donal Ryan’s sequel to The Spinning Heart Donal Ryan made a stir straight out of the gate. His first no...
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville review – pulpy hijinks
A film star and a fantasy icon collaborate on an ultraviolent tale of a superhero’s search for mortality The coolest contemporary movie star, Keanu Reeves, added to his portfolio in 2021 by c...
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books
A hair-raising gameworld adventure, a dystopian thriller set in Edinburgh and a magical tale involving book jumping are among this month’s highlights Edge-of-your-seat-type books are tricklin...
Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott review – the poet laureate of Haight-Ashbury
The San Francisco poet’s work is richly illuminated by this detailed account of his early traumas, dread of ‘deep emotion’ and addiction to casual sex One morning in Hampstead in 1944, Th...
The big idea: why we need to stop former prime ministers cashing in
Ex-PMs once ran cricket clubs and bred cattle, but the role is now a trampoline to self-enrichment Now Britain has made Rishi Sunak its latest ex-prime minister, it’s time to rethink the rol...
The Echoes by Evie Wyld review – a jigsaw puzzle portrait of buried family secrets
In the fourth novel by the award-winning author of The Bass Rock, Wyld weaves a cleverly fragmented story of an Australian woman whose traumatic past casts a long shadow on the present Evie Wyl...
Cloudland Revisited by SJ Perelman review – the humorist who broke the mould
In this collection of essays, the Marx Brothers collaborator and New Yorker writer whose prose style remains unrivalled returns to the dime store novels and schlocky movies of his teens – and n...
Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers review – the myriad faces of a musical maverick
The critic leaves no thought unturned in a personal, interrogative exploration of the life and work of a much-mythologised musician “I am not a biographer, in the usual definition of that ter...
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffor...e review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings
Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country’s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn’t just an ...
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi review – fast and filthy in New Lagos
Existential literary fiction meets underworld caper in this unflinching tale of two recently parted lovers licking their wounds on a wild weekend in a corrupt city Were it not for the nature of...
Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise by Lin Yi-Han review – Taiwan’s #MeToo movement
This finely written, semi-autobiographical tale of a 13-year-old girl’s grooming by her tutor is given tragic depth by the author taking her own life after publication When published in her n...
Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women’s Health by Sophie Harman – the war on wellbeing
The British academic offers a devastating diagnosis of the forces that have shaped female healthcare worldwide, along with a powerful prescription for change to remedy the failings, inequalities ...
Orlaine McDonald: ‘As a writer it’s important that I don’t look away’
The debut novelist on her haunting tale of mothers and daughters, the importance of putting black women on the page and the art form that makes her feel most alive Orlaine McDonald, 55, came to...
‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Ree...his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix
What happens when a Hollywood actor and SF author join forces on a novel? The pair talk about their literary bromance – and their quest to turn Reeves’s comic book series into something deepe...
Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler review – witty millennial angst
A young woman returns to the university town where she grew up in this biting satire of precarity and privilege Halle Butler is one of the funniest and most exacting novelists of millennial pre...
C Pam Zhang: ‘I was aware of the drift towards fascism in Europe’
The Chinese-born, US-based author, whose debut was longlisted for the 2020 Booker, on pursuing pleasure in a volatile world, her taste for chip butties and the joys of being a naive reader C Pa...
‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut
His page-turning books about quantum physics and game theory have given the Chilean writer a cult following – and won him famous fans from Stephen Fry to Björk and Barack Obama “I know you...
Where to start with: Milan Kundera
The Czech writer didn’t only leave us The Unbearable Lightness of Being, he wrote a series of playful, philosophical books examining relationships, sex and mortality That people love to ask n...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/09/where-to-start-with-milan-kundera
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: ‘Satire is a way to make myself less depressed’
The US author on dystopian fiction, the experience of speaking to prisoners about his debut novel and why both of America’s major parties ‘love the war machine’ Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, ...
‘You can write anything about sex, but you cannot talk about money’: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on life after Fleishman
Her bestselling debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble, became a hit TV series. Now Taffy Brodesser-Akner is taking on the American dream How do you follow a novel like Fleishman Is in Trouble ? If Taf...
This month’s best paperbacks: Colson Whitehead, Britney Spears and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some wonderful new paperbacks, from revealing memoirs to entertaining novels Continue reading...
‘Reading’s in danger’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce on books, kids – and the explosive power of Heidi
He has written hit films like 24 Hour Party People and cooked up the Queen’s Olympic skydive. But now, having been crowned Children’s Laureate, he’s on a mission to show kids that books wil...
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
A tender-hearted knight; a malodorous mutt; a very mean goose; the last dragon on earth; enemies-to-lovers romance and more GROTTI BY LEONIE LORD, WALKER, £7.99 When a knight discovers a lost...
Picture books for children – reviews
From the tale of a dog taking a much-needed beach break to a fact-filled dive into the monsters of the deep – and an ode to the skies above It’s summer in the city and one fuzzy dachshund i...
Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into
Fresh debuts, long-awaited sequels, must-read memoirs ... the best books of the season. Plus our pick of paperbacks and children’s fiction • Leading writers choose their holiday reading list...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/22/summer-reading-50-new-books-to-dive-into
The 100 best books of the 21st century
Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000 Read an interview with the author of our No 1 book Read ...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century
The 100 best novels written in English: the full list
After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at his list Robert McCrum reflects on his...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/17/the-100-best-novels-written-in-english-the-full-list