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  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    ReviewBooks
    The best books of the week

    The fraught future of farming; two diagnoses for the NHS; crypto, cash and the dangers of going contactless; an illustrated history of interwar English art; Sadie Jones pokes fun at a middle-class rural retreat; a quirky history of weights and measures — plus Suzi Feay’s round-up of the best in debut fiction

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    Scattered All Over the Earth — what it means to belong

    Yoko Tawada’s cast of characters travel in a reconstructed world that is packed with comical linguistic glitches

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
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    Don’t dismiss the creative output of prolific writers

    ‘I have a weakness for such authors because they trust that inspiration is a bottomless well, and are fearless about putting their work out there’

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    House & Home
    The interiors life: how writers use decor to draw fictional characters

    From Philip Larkin’s bleak bedsits to Henry James’s ‘slippery’ armchair, rooms and furniture hold surprising insights

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Emergency by Daisy Hildyard — a complicated hymn to nature

    Set during the pandemic, this thoughtful novel offers an inquisition into an ecosystem of change and renewal

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
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    Amy and Lan — a comedy rooted in rural nostalgia

    A group of idealistic city dwellers seek a better life in Sadie Jones’s send-up of countryside communal living

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
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    Genre round-up — the best fiction debuts

    Tales of a sheltered academic; observations on life; a notorious scandal; murder, redemption; and toxic relationships

  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
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    Best summer books of 2022: Fiction in translation

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    Best summer books of 2022: Young adult

    Suzi Feay selects her best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
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    Best summer books of 2022: Crime

    Barry Forshaw selects his best mid-year reads

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
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    Best summer books of 2022: Science fiction

    James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads

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    Best summer books of 2022: Thrillers

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  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
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    Best summer books of 2022: Fiction

    Laura Battle selects her best mid-year reads

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw — portrait of a community

    From married boyfriends to fractured mother-daughter relationships and perfect desserts, this gripping short-story collection offers an arresting view on the inner lives of black women

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    Horse by Geraldine Brooks — broken shackles

    Discrimination and suffering are explored in this novel about a couple who bond over a 19th-century portrait of a famous US racehorse

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Review
    Ghost Lover — women in search of meaningful connections

    Lisa Taddeo’s collection of short stories probes the pain and pitfalls of female sex lives and modern dating

  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    ReviewCrime books
    Genre round-up — the best new crime thrillers

    Outback noir from Hayley Scrivenor; Tim Weaver’s widowed sleuth returns; an ingenious narrative from Victoria Selman and a prime slice of Scandicrime by Helene Flood

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Review
    All the Lovers in the Night — a piercing study of female loneliness

    Mieko Kawakami’s third novel to appear in English challenges the expectations and social strictures that weigh on women

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Review
    Standing Heavy by GauZ’ — observations of a black security guard

    France’s colonial legacies and racial prejudices are explored in this entertaining and informative satire

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Review
    The Sidekick by Benjamin Markovits — high-school hoop dreams

    A story of friends and rivals aims to capture the beauty of basketball — but ultimately proves off-target

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Ms Marvel — the Disney franchise unveils its first Muslim superhero

    Iman Vellani charms as teenager Kamala Khan in an adventure story as much about heritage as battling evil

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    Review
    Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh — grotesque fascination

    The American novelist switches her talents to a feudal fantasy that mixes sexual fixations with lyrical evocations

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Review
    You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty — Akwaeke Emezi’s reinvention of the romance novel

    The ‘Freshwater’ author turns the genre on its head with a disruptive story of love, loss and seismic attraction

  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    Review
    The War for Gloria — brawny prose and tough-guy protagonists

    Atticus Lish’s second novel is visceral and ingenious, but his characters can be as repulsive as they are impressive

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