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The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – ingenious cosy crime spoof
This tricksy caper ranges from 1980s Cambridge to the rise and fall of Liz Truss with entertaining results Well, it worked for Richard Osman. Twenty-three-year-old Phyl, stuck in her parents’...
Sales surge for dystopian books after Trump election victory
The Handmaid’s Tale has risen more than 400 places on bestseller charts since Wednesday with a similar rush for copies of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Books about democracy, dystopia, tyranny...
‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber
As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the world David Graebe...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/07/david-graeber-optimistic-anarchist-rebecca-solnit
The Position of Spoons, and Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy review – portrait of the artists
Levy reflects on the creative women who have inspired her, in essays that range from the trivial to the profound ‘It is a writing adventure to go in deep, then deeper, and then to play with ...
The Party by Tessa Hadley review – a daringly old-fashioned novella
The domestic details of postwar life are closely observed in this tale of two sisters over one weekend in Bristol Tessa Hadley’s novella has an alluring opening line: “The party was in full...
Box Office Poison by Tim Robey review – Hollywood’s fascinating flops
A hilarious account of film’s most stunning failures takes in hubris, stupidity and an assortment of disastrous animals At the corner of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards once stood a monument ...
Rachel Cusk wins Goldsmiths prize for novel ‘that turns the world inside out’
Parade, which focuses on three artists, all named G, takes this year’s honour for mould-breaking fiction Rachel Cusk has won the 2024 Goldsmiths prize for her 12th novel Parade, described as ...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/06/rachel-cusk-novel-parade-wins-2024-goldsmiths-prize
Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai review – sinister cosmic visions
A physics student calls on Angela Merkel to help him save the world in this one-sentence onslaught from a ‘master of the apocalypse’ The modernists understood the paradox of the society fro...
A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas review – what makes life worth living?
Diagnosed with cancer in his 40s, the aid worker looks back on his life and offers advice on confronting death You’re diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of 46. How do you react? In all...
She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark review – dark delights
A bona-fide queen of body horror delves into fears and illicit desires in this engrossing short-story debut Disgust and delight, it has been said, live in close proximity; in Eliza Clark’s de...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/06/shes-always-hungry-by-eliza-clark-review-dark-delights
The Party by Tessa Hadley review – sex and the postwar city
The author’s novella about two young women whose yearning for freedom comes at a price sometimes feels unconvincing and underpowered While Tessa Hadley’s The Party began its life as a New Y...
The big idea: is convenience making our lives more difficult?
Everything is easier with modern technology – except fulfilling your true potential The convenience of modern life is nothing short of astounding. As I write this, my phone is wirelessly send...
Anfield Road by Chris Shepherd review – from Liverpool with love
The writer and film-maker’s affection for the city of his youth shines through in this debut graphic novel about family, football and teenage dreams I was drawn to this graphic novel by its L...
Killing Time by Alan Bennett review – senior moments full of wit and style
The author employs his pitch-perfect repertoire of satirical skills in his first book for five years – a novella about the residents of an upmarket care home during the pandemic Alan Bennett,...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/04/killing-time-alan-bennett-review-care-home-covid
V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère review – a humane and thoughtful testimony of terror and loss
This forensic account of the 10-month-long trial of those involved in the 2015 Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed, treads a fine line between empathy and moral judgments while shining...
The Position of Spoons and Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy review – an absorbing essay collection
The award-winning author’s thoughts on JG Ballard, Colette and… lemons Few British writers are as adept as Deborah Levy at enacting Hilary Mantel’s advice to writers: to make the reader ...
Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera review – a Mexican hero in exile
This meticulous reconstruction of Benito Juárez’s time in New Orleans imagines how the inequalities he encountered shaped the future for Mexico’s first indigenous president Yuri Herrera’...
Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism by Rachel Shabi review – racism by any other name
In this sharp and engaging book, Shabi addresses the need to understand and confront antisemitism at a time when it is being downplayed by parts of the left and exploited by others on the right ...
Anne Michaels: ‘Language can’t represent brutality’
The Booker-shortlisted author on her inability to compromise, her friendship with John Berger, and the last book she gave as a gift Anne Michaels, 66, is the author of five collections of poetr...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/02/anne-michaels-held-booker-prize-fugitive-pieces
Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’
Her ‘living autobiographies’ and novels have earned her legions of fans, but that success was hard won. Deborah Levy talks about stamina, boldness, and finding delight in the details Debora...
Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’
In his 10th decade, the writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down ...
Gliff by Ali Smith review – reading the signs of crisis
Two children decode a dystopia, in a chilling and wistful novel that speaks to our times Ali Smith has never been afraid to take cleverness seriously. It is a distinctly European sensibility, ...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/02/gliff-by-ali-smith-review-reading-the-signs-of-crisis
On Bullfighting by AL Kennedy audiobook review – dances with death
The author confronts her own mortality with candour and crisp humour in this thoughtful exploration of bullfighting Ostensibly an exploration of the Spanish corrida de toros, On Bullfighting be...
William Boyd: ‘Fantasy is a genre that I cannot abide any more’
The novelist on why he can’t read JRR Tolkien, being hooked on Muriel Spark and obsessed with James Joyce MY EARLIEST READING MEMORY In west Africa, where I was born in 1952, in Ghana to b...
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October
Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month Simon Mason is an author new to me but I saw his novel Missing Person: Alice in a bookshop and notic...
Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – picking up the pieces
The Buddha of Suburbia author’s wildly inspiring memoir of illness and defiance ‘All day, all night the body intervenes,” wrote Virginia Woolf in On Being Ill. It “blunts or sharpens, c...
Breakthrough by William Pao review – the drugs do work
From sickle cell to Covid antivirals – the stories behind medical innovations that have transformed lives ‘A great deal of creativity goes into making new medicines, most of it witnessed an...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/30/breakthrough-by-william-pao-review-the-drugs-do-work
Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake review – a writer’s place is not in the kitchen
A fun but often unpalatable collection of recipes by authors including Robert Graves, Norman Mailer and Beryl Bainbridge should come with a trigger warning. Anyone for Instant Mince or Dutch Onio...
Eliza Clark: ‘I don’t think we respect female writers’
The British novelist on including content warnings in her first short story collection, why she struggles at book signings and the ‘flagrant sexism’ female authors are subjected to Newcastl...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/26/eliza-clark-shes-always-hungry-boy-parts
Novelist Jonathan Coe: ‘Liz Truss was very unimpressed to meet me’
His new novel is set during the former PM’s brief premiership, so what happened when they had dinner? The author on politics, cosy crime and bingeing Friends Jonathan Coe takes himself off to...
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
Spellbinding witches; memories of home; treasure hunters; fake facts; fearsome creatures; a great guide to graphic art and more ALPHONSE, YOU’RE RUINING THE SHOW! BY DAISY HIRST, WALKER, £1...
American author Joy Williams: ‘The comfy story has got to change’
The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncanny Joy Williams, 80, h...
‘There was eye-watering fear’: John le Carré’s son on writing a new George Smiley novel
Nick Harkaway was a successful novelist in his own right when his brothers asked him to continue their late father’s spy series. Could he pull it off? • Exclusive extract from Karla’s Cho...
Where to start with: Alan Garner
As the master of myth and fantasy turns 90 today it’s a good time to look at his wide ranging canon – from Booker-nominated novels to children’s fiction, poetry and essays Celebrated auth...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/17/where-to-start-with-alan-garner
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books
From young werewolves’ adventures with vampires to hard-up funeral crashers and the late Jeremy Strong’s wonderful final tale This autumn’s publishing schedule is packed with heavy hitter...
This month’s best paperbacks: Werner Herzog, Karl Ove Knausgaard and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from unusual novels to insightful histories Continue reading...
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
An Olympian’s picture book; a miscellany of marvellous kids; volcanoes explained; a dark Celtic adventure; and when teen wishes go wrong MINITOUCH: NATURE – TOUCH-AND-FEEL FIRST COLOURS , B...
From a new Murakami to a memoir by Cher: the best books of the autumn
Cosy crime, eco-thrillers, political memoirs, YA fantasy: there’s something for everyone in our pick of the books to look out for in the months ahead Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Jonatha...