Anne Enright, Kate Grenville and Isabella Hammad shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction
Capturing ‘an enormous breadth of the human experience’, the six shortlisted novels compete for a £30,000 prize to be awarded in June
Yorick Blumenfeld obituary
Other lives: Dutch journalist, author and futurologist who was an advocated for a post-capitalist society
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley set for film of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club
Chris Columbus will direct film adaptation of Pointless presenter’s bestselling mystery book about a group of septuagenarian sleuths
Choice by Neel Mukherjee review – twisty tales of morals
A publisher and his authors debate the balance of power between reader and writer in a novel comprising three long, loosely linked tales
The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan review – a delightful debut about deafness
A promising first novel takes a jazzy, improvised journey with a young woman who has a sudden loss of hearing
In brief: Whale Fall; The Beauty of Falling; My Friend Anne Frank – review
An impressive coming of age novel set on a Welsh island; a physicist’s lifelong obsession with gravity; and the harrowing story of a Holocaust survivor
Jo Hamya: ‘Could I just write one massive grey area?’
The novelist and critic on finding inspiration in her Twitter timeline, why she found the middle-aged man in her new book easier to write than his daughter, and how she learned her craft through poetry
Revealed: the next Sherlock Holmes author, with a twist in the tale
The thriller writer Gareth Rubin focuses on Professor Moriarty, the great detective’s nemesis, in a new adventure approved by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s family
On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights
The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie set
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud review – a bad man in Trinidad
The troubling allure of a real-life gangster is vividly captured in tales from the women who fell for him
1984 by George Orwell audiobook review – a starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation
Tom Hardy, Cynthia Erivo and Andrew Scott conjure menace and melodrama in this 75th-anniversary remake of Orwell’s classic
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Spy by Ajay Chowdhury; A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray; The Kitchen by Simone Buchholz; The Innocents by Bridget Walsh; The Grand Illusion by Syd Moore
Thunderhead by Miranda Darling review – pacy Sydney thriller hits a superficial note
This tightly plotted story shows a woman on the brink, and doesn’t make much room for anything else
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor review – a debut with dark undercurrents
In this haunting and restrained novel, a young woman sets out to escape the confines of a Welsh island
The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota review – the political is personal
This story of a man running to be union leader in a small Derbyshire town explores grief, guilt and ideological divides