Look What You Made Me Do is a dark and satisfying skewering of entitled boomers and ambitious millennials

New novels from Maggie O'Farrell, Julian Barnes, Brandon Taylor and Ali Smith are among the highlights of a rich year for readers

A defiant new memoir by the exiled activist Maria Alyokhina reveals how Putin tightened his grip on power

The writer on sacrificial lambs, her new retelling of Medea, and the importance of reading aloud

Marina Warner’s sprawling literary and political history of sanctuary offers a guide to a better way of living

Francesca Segal’s beguiling Island Calling makes its setting a place of estrangement and escape

Born of a spontaneous decision to up sticks for the Grecian wilderness, Julian Hoffman’s poetic memoir is an inspiring call to throw caution to the wind

Traversing four water systems around the world, Robert Macfarlane calls for rivers to be recognised as living beings in a powerful confluence of environmentalism and sublime prose