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  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    The best books of the week

    The uncertain direction of Britain’s Conservative party; the medical uses of digital doppelgängers; the Chinese train heist that inspired Mao; a new novel from Philip Hensher; a history of male dominance; the tangled relationship of religion and science; how Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ was published; a Kafkaesque story from Hong Kong — plus Pilita Clark’s round-up of titles on the environment

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Owlish — a surreal foray into repression and magical escape

    Dorothy Tse’s debut novel draws on protests in Hong Kong to plunge its protagonist into Kafkaesque situations

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    The best books of the week
    To Battersea Park — a return to lockdown London

    Philip Hensher embraces the pandemic narrative with a mixture of fever-fuelled fantasy and astute social commentary

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh — how desire can lead to betrayal

    The Welsh novelist’s third book is about one tumultuous summer when a small town begins to unravel

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Review
    My Nemesis — an excitingly barbed portrait of feminist rivalry

    Charmaine Craig’s novel is a complex, propulsive story of an unapologetically unforgiving woman

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    Tomás Nevinson — Javier Marías’s last great novel

    In the hands of the Spanish master, a tale of espionage becomes a powerful tool for philosophy and cerebral game-playing

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    ReviewCrime books
    Crime round-up — return of a Nordic noir master

    The latest novels from Åsa Larsson, Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow and more

  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
    Africa special
    The new talent lighting up Nigeria’s bestseller lists

    The novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on the books creating a homegrown publishing boom

  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
    ReviewScience fiction books
    In Ascension by Martin MacInnes — a far-reaching epic on the planet’s future

    A blend of deep scientific knowledge and nuanced narrative takes us from the sea to space to highlight Earth’s riches

  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    The Anniversary — coercion and power in a marriage hit by storm

    Stephanie Bishop weaves a literary thriller from a story of seduction, success and simmering resentment

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Africa special
    ‘The Famished Road’ and my quest for the imaginative richness of Africa

    When Ben Okri won the 1991 Booker prize, it was the culmination of a writing journey defined by literary experimentation — and upheaval

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Review
    Dr No by Percival Everett — Bond-esque villainy with added verbal trickery

    The Booker-shortlisted American’s 23rd novel has invention and wit but gets lost in its own playfulness

  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    Africa special
    Africa’s comic book superheroes tell the continent’s forgotten stories

    Local publishers are mining countries’ rich histories and mythologies, boosting global interest and challenging western narratives

  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    Review
    Best new sci-fi books — aliens, AI and science gone awry

    A gender-flipped Handmaid’s Tale, murderous moths and driverless cars with a mind of their own

  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    Review
    Old God’s Time — Sebastian Barry’s enthralling, haunting new novel

    A broken-down detective reckons with the past in a story full of pathos, love and grief

  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    Review
    Cuddy — a risk-taking epic that north-east England deserves

    Benjamin Myers’s latest novel tells the story of St Cuthbert and his influence from the Dark Ages to the present day

  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    Review
    Visions of Ireland, visions of God — debut fiction to watch out for

    Four distinctive emerging authors evoke lives disrupted by religion, toxic masculinity and Ulster’s sectarian divide

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    Nilanjana Roy
    The case against rewriting Roald Dahl

    Yes, sensibilities evolve — but outmoded or offensive beliefs can be flagged up in ways short of expunging them altogether

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    Review
    Forbidden Notebook — a woman in search of agency and expression

    Only now translated into English, Alba De Céspedes’s novel puts us inside the mind of a mother trapped in domestic discontent

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    Review
    Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood — gripping and imaginative short stories

    This new collection shows the author in full possession of her powers

  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    Love Me Tender by Constance Debré — can a mother cease to love her son?

    The Parisian author’s first novel to be translated into English is a fierce and fiercely auto-fictional exploration of family

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    Review
    All Your Children, Scattered — three generations remember Rwanda’s genocide

    The first novel from poet and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse explores the trauma of 1994’s mass killings

  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Review
    Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery — two teenagers in Warhol’s Factory

    The Irish writer’s debut novel imagines the lives of Mae and Shelley in 1960s Manhattan

  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Review
    Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton — an explosive climate-change thriller

    The latest novel from the author of ‘The Luminaries’ is a gripping tale about community, capitalism and the future of humanity

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Two Sisters by Blake Morrison — the challenge of family memoir

    The poet’s latest book tackles the subject of his sister, who died in 2018 of heart failure

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