Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan review – state-of-the-nation burlesque
This Dickensian yarn of a celebrity writer heading for a fall combines the bling of an airport bestseller with an insider’s grasp on high culture
Tell by Jonathan Buckley review – our need for narratives
A gardener’s super-rich boss has gone missing in this captivating interrogation of storytelling
The Morningside by Téa Obreht review – life in exile
Drawing on myth and folktale, this story of refugees forced to leave their homelands contains hope and humour as well as dread
Eight writers win ‘freedom and time to write’ with $175,000 Windham-Campbell prizes
Honours that span fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry go to practitioners around the world including novelist Deirdre Madden and poet Jen Hadfield
Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean ‘grand storyteller’ dies aged 90
Author of novels drawing on African and Caribbean history enjoyed international acclaim, including the New Academy prize, which stood in for the Nobel in 2018
Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings review – a perfectly realised fictional creation
A South African woman’s woes are slowly illuminated in a stark, darkly humorous novel by the author of the Booker-longlisted An Island
Bri Lee: ‘Writing about getting molested is why I now enjoy artistic freedom. That’s cooked’
In the lead-up to the release of her first novel, the author talks about art, cynicism and the human fascination with pain
How to Make a Bomb by Rupert Thomson review – struck by sickness, an academic seeks solace in love
A man swaps his comfortable existence for an affair in Thomson’s lyrical study of a midlife crisis
‘I want to be a Clifty’: Charmian Clift’s unfinished last novel finally gets its moment
More than 60 years after it was put aside to help her husband George Johnston write My Brother Jack, Clift’s novel The End of the Morning is being published
Diva by Daisy Goodwin review – a novelisation of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis’s tumultuous affair
This powerful reimagining of the soprano’s toxic relationship with the Greek shipping tycoon captures the drama and heartbreak of one of the most celebrated singers of all time
In brief: Tales from the Dancefloor; The Curse of Pietro Houdini; The Earth Transformed – review
Sacha Lord tells some enjoyable tales of Manchester clubbing, Derek B Miller blends wartime adventure and art-heist thriller, and Peter Frankopan attempts a planetary history
‘I will defeat Richard Osman!’: Holly Jackson on being Britain’s top selling female crime author
The YA novelist talks about her early love of Tomb Raider, true crime and fangirling the cast of the BBC adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
‘Leaving home used to be a rite of passage’: Andrew O’Hagan on family, freedom and a generational divide
The Scottish novelist moved out as early as he could. His son says he might never leave. Do young people still want to flee the nest, he asks, and what happens when a population comes to maturity feeling ‘made’ by their parents?
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston review – a blistering tale of land and violence
The tragedy that decimated UK farming in 2001 spills into a nightmare in a viscerally vivid debut with knife-sharp black humour
Vernor Vinge obituary
Sci-fi author and computer scientist who coined the term ‘the Singularity’ to describe the rapid acceleration of AI