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Many authors are discovering that their writing has been fed into the AI blender — and I am among them
From Chetna Maroo and Rose Tremain’s stories of growing pains to a trio of spy tales
Return of the Caesars; the Nobel Russian oil dynasty; Francis Spufford’s captivating 1920 crime thriller; how social media rewired capitalism; Sebastian Faulks goes sci-fi; the contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s; a biography of maverick publisher George Weidenfeld; the Jewish experience in VIchy France — plus the best new thrillers
The Brooklyn-based writer talks to Lulu Smyth about morality, satire and his new novel
A murder mystery in a fictitious Midwestern city blends thriller tropes with a fresh reimagining of American society
Anne Berest explores the Jewish experience of occupied France in a novel based on her own family’s story
This deft exploration of human genetics is strange, unsettling and one of the novelist’s best
From the Rwandan genocide to death at the Bank of England, sinister stories of spies, politics and exile
Fiction goes where news falls short, bringing depth and nuance to the lives of people crudely labelled by politics or religion
Top award in original English-language fiction reflects ‘full range of lived experience’, says jury chair
The second novel in a new series by the Norwegian master is epic and weighty — and repeatedly touched by death
The laureate of American sleaze conjures a lost LA out of the film star’s death and a cast of real-life characters including JFK
‘Jim’s expression is curious, tortoise-like. He looks at you like a family member he hasn’t seen in a long time’
The depiction of tyranny and the traumatic fallout for its opponents in this Booker-longlisted novel is utterly believable
Lauren Groff’s evocative novel challenges legends about the Puritans’ arrival in America — and offers a female-focused alternative
A postwar coming-of-age story told with elegance and wit stands comparison with the best of Muriel Spark
The writer on the pull of Zanzibar, his disquiet at Britain’s treatment of refugees — and the problem with italics
Ismail Kadare digs deep into a fabled telephone conversation that may have sealed the fate of a dissident Russian poet
Filling in the ‘Slow Horses’ back-story, this sort-of prequel is part belly-laugh spy spoof, part elegiac state-of-the-nation satire
The short stories in the writer’s third collection are quiet, subtle and often agonisingly wrenching
Stephen King gives an old love her own book, Christopher Fowler’s farewell, and much more
‘I shall continue to write novels, but I will never write another like The Singularities’, writes the Booker Prize winner
Twelve stories of the life, love and tribulations of consecutive inhabitants of an isolated house in Massachusetts
Literary rivalry, a Victorian trial, slavery in Jamaica . . . the author effortlessly casts her own light on the past
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