The Line of Beauty review – Hollinghurst’s Gatsby-esque social satire is a class act

Jack Holden has elegantly adapted Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker winner about class envy, gay culture and political scandal in 80s Britain

Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley review – raw, dark folk horror confronts mortality

This wildly atmospheric tale of a reunion of dying people in a crumbling seaside hotel borrows tropes from cosy crime, but is truly chilling

From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured

Dolly Mixture’s singer and bassist looks back on their time chasing mainstream success and facing down outrageous sexism

From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak

Tatsuki Fujimoto’s coming-of-age saga continues with a surreal encounter with a chainsaw-wielding demon living in a teenager’s soul

The I Love Dick author combines autofiction with memoir and true crime

A new collection brings essays, fiction and fragments together in a wild if uneven portrait of a restless mind

New book, published just before the ceasefire deal, describes in granular detail the conditions for dismantling apartheid in Israel-Palestine

The healing power of gardens; celebrating an abolitionist; hope in the toughest times; a gladiator romantasy and more

The actor on being called ugly, telling Johnny Rotten to F-off, and striking gold at Cannes

In a world where books have to vie with smartphones for attention, a brilliant ebook reader is more necessary than ever

A law professor leaves his failing marriage and faltering career and hits the open road in this Booker-shortlisted novel of midlife turmoil

Life extensionists like Bryan Johnson want to live forever. But at what cost?

The Book of Dust trilogy is brought to a complex and fitting end as Lyra battles the Magisterium over her lost imagination