Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return

Cannes film festival: Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood audiobook review – a shore thing

A wannabe folk singer’s humdrum life as a shrimp catcher is upended by the arrival of a mysterious American stranger in the Booker-listed tale

Sherlock Holmes review – the game is afoot, a stone’s throw from Baker Street

The detective and his sidekick return for a new case by Joel Horwood in an alfresco setting that playfully refers to nearby attractions

Why food is the real star of my new novel

From James Bond’s breakfasts to the kimchi fried rice in Crying in H Mart, a book’s food can often linger longer in our memories than its characters or storylines

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans review – immensely enjoyable return of the epistolary novel

This moving work about an irascible woman in her 70s who conducts her most intimate relationships through letters has been shortlisted for the Women’s prize

Weimar by Katja Hoyer review – the town that changed Germany

It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism – what can this historic city tell us about democracy?

‘Stunned and shocked’: Ingrid Horrocks wins top prize at New Zealand’s Ockham awards for her fiction debut

All Her Lives is only the fifth short story collection to win the prestigious NZ$65,000 prize in 58 years

#MeToo-themed novel wins inaugural reader-led award worth £50,000

British author Donna Fisher has won the Libraro prize for the unpublished manuscript of her ‘provocative and timely’ book, Sheep’s Clothing

JH Prynne obituary

Modernist poet whose work is considered hard to grasp but rewarding for the reader who persists

Do we judge people by the way they sound? How accents shape our lives

A new book by linguistics professor Valerie Fridland, who was raised in Memphis by parents with French accents, explores the power behind the way we speak

Stella prize 2026: Lee Lai becomes first non-binary person and first graphic novelist to win with Cannon

Lai wins $60,000 literary award for her study of a young woman’s repression and rage as she struggles to juggle the needs of those around her

Vocal Break by Lauren Elkin review – a celebration of the female voice

From Édith Piaf to Charli xcx, a moving study of the ways women express themselves – and the obstacles they face

Uprising by Tahmima Anam review – a fiery novel of female rebellion

Radical hope and rage combine in this tale of ecological precarity and resistance among sex workers on a brothel island

Lloyd Jones obituary

Other lives: Journalist and author who wrote novels, short stories and poetry in English and Welsh

High and Low by Amanda Craig review – will Britain boil over?

A north London cafe is under siege in a state-of-the-nation satire that brings together the haves and have-nots