The Two Loves of Sophie Strom by Sam Taylor review – a sliding doors tale of survival
A Jewish boy’s life splits in two and follows two different paths in this novel of trauma and enduring love in Nazi Europe
This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka review – an innocent online
Told in the second person, this account of an everygirl growing up with the internet will be devastatingly familiar
Swearing, snogging and spying: Cherub’s cool teenage secret agents hit 20
Robert Muchamore’s series of novels about young undercover intelligence operatives with troubled lives shook up the sanitised world of early noughties YA literature
CJ Sansom obituary
Lawyer turned novelist who enjoyed huge success with his bestselling Shardlake historical mysteries
CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71
The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry – a tale of cosmic beauty on the Essex marshes
The Essex Serpent author’s fourth novel, about a newspaper columnist who lives a double life, mixes themes of faith and physics to powerful effect
England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee review – a searing indictment of factionalism
The lives of two east London teenagers become fatally entwined in an assured debut novel addressing themes of masculinity and marginalisation
My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes review – love and shenanigans in a new Walsh sister story
In the bestselling novelist’s latest, Anna Walsh moves back to Dublin and falls for an old flame in a comical tale of grit, growth and self-acceptance
‘Generous and reflective’: letters show other sides to macho Ernest Hemingway
In the mid-1930s, the novelist, then a controversial war correspondent, encouraged aspiring writers with frankness and humour
Moses McKenzie: ‘I was thinking about the predicament of the black British diaspora’
The award-winning Bristol-raised novelist on his new book about a teenage Rastafarian living in the city in volatile times, how he was influenced by The Catcher in the Rye - and being celebrated by a Tory politician
‘My favourite stories are love stories’: Emily Henry on her enemies-to-lovers relationship with romance fiction
With four million copies sold and three books in adaptation, the Beach Read author is riding high. She talks about hope, TikTok tropes and escapism
England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee review – battle lines are drawn
Two teenage boys come of age in a divided and radicalised London in this politically charged debut
Audacious, stimulating and ‘utterly bonkers’: Siang Lu, the thrilling new face of Australian literature
The award-winning author of The Whitewash takes his readers on wild rides where facts and fiction are often indistinguishable. He’s back with a new novel, containing secrets only he knows
Martin Bax obituary
Paediatrician specialising in child development and novelist who founded the literary periodical Ambit
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
An ungrammatical egg; a demystifying approach to death; 10 new poets to read aloud; and a stunning gothic mystery