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Three books examine the perils of loneliness — a problem that has only intensified during the pandemic — and offer practical solutions as well as the salve of solidarity
Two books bring much-needed African viewpoints to the country’s colonial history
This tale of a financier’s alleged fraud and spectacular fall from grace reveals the dark side of the private equity industry
Three new books illustrate the wildly divergent portrayals of the practice of Islam, from fervent isolation to western assimilation
This romp through mathematical ideas doesn’t shy away from equations or challenging ideas but is always a model of clarity
A haunted house, medieval phantasms, romance in a loop, and machines in control are among the genre-expanding fare
How can we avoid the twin traps of finishing books we don’t care for and ditching those that might have brought us joy?
An exhaustive, engaging study of postwar British film and television. It is a feat of argument, description and affection
This chronicle of the melancholy, isolation and decadence of the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia brings to life a forgotten land
This French-Moroccan novelist’s first in a planned trilogy is concerned with questions of womanhood, respectability and guilt
This hefty tome brings the spin-off selves of the Portuguese poet, essayist, translator and fantasist together gracefully
The novelist’s polemical first essay collection calls for a new matriarchal era and offers a witty, provocative and cunning display of her linguistic abilities
How we behave at work and is Friday the new Saturday? Here are this month’s top titles
In the company of today’s literati, the lives of rajas and taluqdars could be reimagined
The actor-turned-presenter takes a tour of Europe with his bag stuffed with appropriate literature
The debate over Europe’s Muslims, a scientist’s journal of the pandemic, Britain’s love affair with TV, a casino crash and the greed of Wall Street, a history of the Baltic’s frontier states, novels by Leila Slimani and John Boyne — plus Barry Forshaw’s round-up of crime fiction
A new work by the English playwright, poet and essayist ahead of his forthcoming book ‘We Travelled: Essays and Poems’
This scientist’s plague year journal gives fresh insight into the uneasy relationship between science and politics in the UK’s fight to constrain the pandemic
An uproariously funny novel that offers a timely foray into the absurdities and injustices of the contemporary culture wars
This bestselling German novel explores notions of freedom, identity and independence through the stories of five women
Fathers’ revenge, Icelandic noir, murder on the psych ward and a fond farewell to fictional detectives spice up the latest releases
What happens when debt becomes an over-geared disaster — and there are no good guys
An intimate, enquiring and inventive memoir unpacks the experiences of one family displaced by war
An elegiac tale of exile, desolation and the pull of the homeland, now translated into English for the first time
The Turkish-British author’s 12th novel weaves its magic through civil conflict, love, family and an arboreal narrator
Two commentators on the US political system offer detailed diagnoses on the troubled question of what it is to be a US citizen
Key members of Oxford’s scientific team reveal the exhaustive effort and care that went into the race to create a ‘vaccine for the world’
This debut novel charts the challenge of a rival outsider at a publishing house with wit and elements of sci-fi and horror
As Europe’s elder stateswoman steps down as German chancellor, what will be her legacy?
This insight into the overlooked world of the hunt for rare editions offers fascinating anecdotes and a hint of the steel needed to succeed
Enter a mystery woman’s mind; a melodrama at a house clear-out; a perfect array of Molly Keane; and inspiration from Marcus Rashford
This survey of the excesses of the garment industry puts a determinedly human face on the high cost of cheap clothing
Why intelligent — even sceptical — independent thinkers succumb to the allure of community and ‘inside’ information that some groups offer
Their money would be better spent saving this planet rather than gazing at it from afar
A multilingual Asian protagonist drifts through seemingly disparate vignettes in Kim’s powerful exploration of loneliness
The daring escape of the fugitive Renault-Nissan chief caps this authoritative exposé of frictions at the giant carmaker
The novel explores the tensions that result from situations that are read by different people to denote different things
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