Fairyland review – moving memoir of queer parenting and new kinds of family in 70s San Francisco
Andrew Durham’s tender adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s book finds warmth, humour and heartbreak in an unconventional family unit shaped by love and loss
The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams review – twisted love story from a cult writer
Williams follows her prize-winning debut with a gothically overstuffed tale of a cynical young woman in a crumbling university town
Crossing the Wine Dark Sea by Emily Wilson review – a masterclass in translation
The polarising translator of the Odyssey and the Iliad sets out her philosophy in this fascinating collection
Medieval King Arthur manuscript could fetch £2m at auction
Book containing early versions of the Merlin and Grail legends has remained in private hands for 700 years
Ian McEwan says pessimism ‘a bigger problem than climate change’
Speaking at Hay festival as UK breaks May heat record, author says optimism is a ‘moral duty’
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From racy riders to romantic rivals: Jilly Cooper’s best books – ranked!
The second series of Rivals has put the bestselling author’s brand of saucy jollity back on screen, but what is her bonkbuster nonpareil?
A Billion Years of Sex Differences by Steve Stewart-Williams review – what we get wrong about men and women
A psychologist wades into controversial territory in this counterintuitive study of nature, nurture and gender
Written under collapsing ceilings, typed on phones: the poetry bringing Palestine to the world
Two new poetry collections tackle themes of trauma, exile, resistance and love amid conflict in Gaza
‘I want to bury it under a roundabout!’ Kim Noble on his unusual approach to promoting his graphic novel
The unsettling performance artist, who has made some electrifying stage shows in his time, is taking a leap into literature with an eye-opening book, In Pursuit of a Wonderful Nothing. Quite a hard sell, he thinks
Whistler by Ann Patchett review – a saccharine story of reunion
A woman’s encounter with the stepfather she hasn’t seen for decades leads to a revived bond – but is it all too perfect?
Could nature itself hold the solution to climate change?
Technological interventions face huge financial or practical challenges. Why not embrace the Earth’s feedback loops?
I was punched on the school bus. Being violently bullied changed me – and affected one of the biggest decisions of my life
I’ve worked hard to leave the intimidation I experienced in the past. But when I met the man I wanted to marry, those childhood memories took me by surprise
Anna Ritchie obituary
Archaeologist whose excavations in Orkney included Knap of Howar, with domestic buildings more than 5,000 years old
‘My body is fat, not wrong’: how body neutrality – not positivity – helped me shed a lifetime of shame
If I’d been taught this way of thinking as a child, I can’t begin to imagine how much easier things could have been