Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore
Candice Carty-Williams: ‘People feel very attached to Queenie’
The breakout success of her debut created a publishing scramble for Black writers, but has that appetite for diversity endured? Carty-Williams talks about wanting to quit the TV adaptation, why now is the perfect time for her sequel
The Sisters of Serendib by Ayesha Inoon review – Sri Lankan asylum seekers seek a safer life in Australia
Inoon’s second novel follows three sisters settling in a new land, in a book that glosses over darker moments and trauma in favour of hope
A Little Bit Bad by Cassandra Neyenesch review – a sparkling, subversive debut
With its echoes of Miranda July’s All Fours, this tragicomic tale of an American woman’s illicit romance is also a gripping murder mystery
Collapse by Édouard Louis review – coming to terms with a brother’s death
In the latest autofictional instalment of his family saga, the French writer makes sense of his sibling’s violent homophobia and short life
Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year
Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is the first novel from the Nobel laureate since 2021’s Klara and the Sun and draws on the author’s love of music, art and Golden Age cinema
Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens review – the last day of maternity leave is a comic rollercoaster
Parenting is represented in all its hilarious, moving and truthfully plodding detail, in the story of a mother and her two little boys
Wash by Erica Wagner review – vivid portrait of a monumental American
The life of the Brooklyn Bridge’s chief engineer inspires this multifaceted novel
What to read this summer by Mark Haddon, Samantha Harvey, Zadie Smith and more
Leading authors including Sarah Waters, William Dalrymple, Bernardine Evaristo and Anne Enright reveal their perfect holiday reading
70 brilliant books for the summer
From dynamite debuts to must-read memoirs and magical children’s fiction, here’s our selection of this year’s hottest holiday reads. Plus leading authors share their favourites
‘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