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  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Review
    The Field by Robert Seethaler — life lessons from beyond the grave

    The Austrian author’s graveyard stories of a town’s history reveal how our lives boil down to a handful of choices

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best new crime thrillers

    Sergio Olguín’s latest gripping tale, tenacious heroines, plus murders in Africa

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    The best books of the week

    The ethics of genome editing, masculinity under the spotlight, the argument for better arguments, Britain’s 1960s winter of discontent, the truth about the Vikings — and Suzi Feay’s young adult fiction round-up

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    The best books of the week
    Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi — shattered lives

    The second novel by the Ghanaian-American writer offers a powerful perspective on addiction and race

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    The best books of the week
    Undressing the troubled male mind

    Are modern men facing a crisis of masculinity?

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    The best books of the week
    Bolt from the Blue, by Jeremy Cooper — trip through an artist’s life

    Correspondence home serves as an enlightening, venturesome epistolary vehicle to revisit the heyday of the YBAs

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    The best books of the week
    The best young adult fiction — the anxiety of influencers

    An occult-tinged mystery-romance steeped in Irish folklore; a sophisticated magical tale; and the very unmagical world of social-media

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Review
    Diary of a Film, by Niven Govinden — what the director saw

    The sensitive mind of a film-maker provides a dreamlike tour of an Italian city in this brief but memorable novel

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Review
    No One Is Talking About This — dark vision of life led online

    Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel is the latest in a flourishing genre about living through the internet

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    Alexandria, by Paul Kingsnorth — the last humans on Earth

    The final book in the acclaimed Buckmaster trilogy leaps in to the 31st century with the search for a fabled city

  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    ReviewScience fiction books
    The pick of the best new science fiction

    Two smart sci-fi debuts in ‘Radio Life’ and ‘The Stranger Times’ and a London split in two in Louise Carey’s ‘Inscape’

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Review
    A Burning, by Megha Majumdar — imperilled by populism

    This debut novel follows three characters caught in the maelstrom of contemporary Indian politics

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Review
    Temporary, by Hilary Leichter — risky business

    Weighty questions underlie the wackiness and misadventures of a temp’s 23 jobs and 18 boyfriends in this surreal fable

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Review
    The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter — rebellion against inequality

    A timely study of individuals living through the tumultuous Spokane Free Speech riots of 1909

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Review
    The City of Tears, by Kate Mosse — a deft historical thriller

    A displaced family serves as a vehicle to examine the Protestant-Catholic conflict of the French Wars of Religion

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    ReviewCrime books
    Best new crime fiction — Daughters of Night, Girl A, The Survivors

    After a vintage 2020 for the genre, follow-ups to earlier debut novels get 2021 off to a full-blooded start

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    Review
    Hurdy Gurdy by Christopher Wilson — prophecy and pestilence

    A healer-monk recounts his Chaucerian adventures across the plague-blighted land of medieval England

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Review
    Cardiff, by the Sea by Joyce Carol Oates — the battle for moral honour

    Four family tales about escape and revenge crackle with dark forces

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Review
    The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan — the vanishing

    Family tragedy meets magical realist fantasia in the Australian author’s novel of love and loss

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    Richard Flanagan: ‘Art was something that happened elsewhere’

    The Australian novelist on his country’s ‘toxic’ approach to climate change, the Murdochs — and the Booker win that saved him from ruin

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
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    Women who find liberation through obsession

    Three novels chart the course of female preoccupations and how they can offer a route to an enhanced reality

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Review
    A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself by Peter Ho Davies — pregnant with meaning

    In a slim novel about parenthood, Davies explores the big questions of life, sex, morality and mortality

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Review
    Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford — fate and the fragility of life

    A reimagining of a terrible tragedy that explores what would have happened had five children been spared from a bomb blast 

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Review
    The best new children’s books — space dads and everyday wonders

    Fresh works range from tales of embarrassing aliens to poignant messages from the Holocaust

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Review
    Luster by Raven Leilani — a strange sisterhood

    A self-described ‘office slut’ is the complex heroine in this filthy and funny novel

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