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Erica Wagner
Ann Patchett’s book of transgressions
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Orlando Whitfield
Adam Ross’s Playworld is a rightful heir to Catcher in the Rye
Wed 20 May 2026
Fiona Noble
Young adult books of the month: chaos and the cure
Mon 18 May 2026
Anna Leszkiewicz
Liz Allan’s 1990s-set novel smells like teen spirit
Sun 10 May 2026
Anthony Cummins
Ben Lerner’s anxious generations
Fri 8 May 2026
Nicola Sturgeon
Douglas Stuart’s island of lost souls
Thu 7 May 2026
Stephanie Merritt
To understand modern Ireland, read Tana French
Wed 29 Apr 2026
Rowan Williams
Yann Martel’s Trojan folly
Sat 25 Apr 2026
Hephzibah Anderson
Femme Feral is a sly werewolf horror about the menopause
Fri 24 Apr 2026
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch is a genre-defying delight
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Jude Rogers
The Passion of Jon Doyle
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Eimear McBride
Anna Kavan’s dream vocabulary
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Alex Clark
Stephanie Sy-Quia’s tale of religious and romantic devotion
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Alex Preston
John Lanchester’s warped generational satire
Thu 19 Mar 2026
David Barnett
Country star pays record $12m for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road scroll
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Anthony Cummins
Isabel Waidner’s As If is a daring doppelganger puzzle
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Anthony Cummins
Howard Jacobson’s great unravelling
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Lucy Apps’s Gloria Don’t Speak is a profound and important debut
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
Makenna Goodman’s surreal cancel-culture comedy
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Anthony Cummins
Jeremy Cooper’s Discord is a perfectly pitched comedy
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Rebecca Perry’s debut novel serves a feast for an unfit king
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Fiona Noble
Young adult books of the month: sisters, lovers and assassins
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Xavier Greenwood
From g’day to ey oop: how Aussie star Jacob Elordi got his Wuthering Heights accent
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Lily Isaacs
Rebecca Fallon’s Family Drama finds sincerity in soap operas
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Clare Clark
Trouble in sunny Spyland
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Catherine Newman’s American pastoral
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Sarah Moss
Ali Smith’s Glyph goes back to the future
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Anthony Cummins
George Saunders’s sympathy for the devil
Thu 22 Jan 2026
Ali Smith
Father Christmas: a short story
Sat 20 Dec 2025
Eimear McBride
Return to the Jon Fosse universe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Anthony Cummins
Confessions of a reluctant bookseller
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Penelope Lively
Why children’s books matter
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Fiona Noble
Young adult fiction of the month: spellbinding stories
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Salman Rushdie’s The Eleventh Hour: For once, words fail him
Thu 30 Oct 2025
Rowan Williams
Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field: a manifesto for how to be human
Mon 27 Oct 2025
Catherine Taylor
Klaus Kinski, misguided messiah
Sat 25 Oct 2025
John Self
Bora Chung’s ghosts of the present
Sat 11 Oct 2025
Anthony Cummins
Joyce Carol Oates: ‘In some ways, I’m writing into a vacuum’
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Sarah Hall: ‘The Helm Wind was like a childhood friend’
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Sarah Hall
A Balloon Ride: a new short story by Sarah Hall
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Hephzibah Anderson
Nell Stevens is forging a bold identity of her own
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Anthony Cummins
David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’
Sat 22 Feb 2025
