‘Failure was my thing’: Women’s prize winner Virginia Evans on her long journey to success
The American author received ‘thousands of rejections’ over two decades before finally hitting gold with her first published novel
‘Are audiobooks cheating?’ We answered your questions about our 100 top novels list
Liese Spencer, our joint head of books, and non-fiction editor David Shariatmadari answered your questions and discussed the huge reaction to our 100 greatest novels list and our readers’ choices of the 100 best.Read the Q&A now.
The Long Drop review – Denise Mina’s whisky-soaked tale of triple murder is horribly gripping
The novel is adapted with equal parts wit and horror to capture the depravity of a notorious crime in Glasgow
How to Love the World by Ilka Tampke review – a woman is trapped by a fallen tree
The stuck narrator records the minutiae of the forest and her harrowing life in a purposeful novel that demands a slow read but doesn’t always reward it
Women’s prize: Virginia Evans wins for fiction and Lyse Doucet takes award for nonfiction
Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes
The Artist by Lucy Steeds audiobook review – a sensory feast in Provence
A reclusive artist is the reluctant subject of a journalist’s attention in a rich world of scents, scenery and secrets
Frida Slattery As Herself by Ana Kinsella review – will-they-won’t-they in a skilful theatrical romance
This impressive and charismatic debut novel revisits an actor and a director over various collaborations
Lovers XXX by Allie Rowbottom review – a wild journey through the 80s LA porn scene
A young woman begins a career in the adult industry while, 30 years later, her friend tries to find out what happened to her, in an addictive, twist-filled story
Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates
Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in attempt to widen access to quality fiction
The End of Everything by M John Harrison review – near-future visions from an SF master
This bleak but brilliant tale of enigmatic alien entities and slow social collapse exposes the terrifying insecurity of life right now
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review – fun in the Tuscan sun
The Pulitzer-winning author of Less has crafted a breezy confection of fish-out-of-water wit, insecurity and self-discovery set in an Italian paradise
Readers’ top 100 novels of all time
After authors and critics chose their top 100 novels, we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here are the titles that made your list – topped by a new entry at number 1
Move over Middlemarch! Readers’ top 100 novels
After critics and authors picked their top 100 novels of all time, we asked readers to choose their favourites. Thousands of votes came in from around the world ... which books did you choose that were missing from the original list, and what has pushed George Eliot off the top spot?• See the top 100 here
Best Australian books out in June: a buzzy novel, gripping nonfiction and an extremely unusual debut
Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
The Children by Melissa Albert review – intriguing fairytale of creativity’s dangers
In her first novel for adults, the YA author explores the dark side of writers who fictionalise their children’s lives