I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel review – fizzing debut that’s hard to put down
Patel’s searing novel skitters through a world of toxic exes, mean girls and bad jobs – and it’s addictive
Geoff Dyer: ‘I’m convinced Roger Federer and I could become great friends’
The author on pranking JM Coetzee, his huge debt to Labour, and his new book about the twilight of careers for artists, writers and sportsmen
Books by women that every man should read: chosen by Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Richard Curtis and more
Studies show men avoid female authors. Ahead of the Women’s prize for fiction, chair of judges Mary Ann Sieghart finds out why – and we ask male authors to redress the balance
The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers review – rollicking crop-circle folk tale
A spirited and anarchic novel about 80s outsiders on a quest to bring magic to the landscape
‘It’s the best way to live!’: International Booker winners Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell
The Indian novelist and her translator scooped the £50,000 prize with Tomb of Sand, a novel about death – but with laughs. The morning after their triumph they talk about fun, feminism and famous ancestors
Esther Freud: ‘Gone With the Wind was my first experience of dysfunctional love’
The novelist on adoring Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, being inspired by Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and crying at Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
First novel translated from Hindi wins International Booker prize
Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell share the £50,000 prize for ‘extraordinarily funny and fun’ Tomb of Sand
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa review – deftly executed and cringingly funny
Young people try – and fail – to live gorgeously in the Melbourne writer’s debut collection, which is bleak, acute and stealthily tender
How to Murder Your Husband writer found guilty of murdering husband
Portland jury finds Nancy Crampton Brophy guilty of killing chef Daniel Brophy in June 2018
Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi review – a life far from home
In the followup to the International Booker winner Celestial Bodies, a student reflects on her roots in Oman
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère review – terror comes from within
From a meditation retreat via the Charlie Hebdo massacre to a catastrophic personal breakdown, this is a devastating portrait of the western capitalist everyman in crisis
Top 10 novels about inheritance
From Dickens and Du Maurier to Henry James and Shirley Jackson, where there’s a will, there are generally the makings of a great story …
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas review – a scandalous affair
This clever, engrossing debut about an ageing English literature professor explores female creativity, rage and desire
The end of men: the controversial new wave of female utopias
There have been many novels that imagine a world without men – but are these books reductive or freeing?
Fight Night by Miriam Toews review – a paean to the strength of women
The Canadian author once again mines her cultural background in a wonderfully drawn celebration of intergenerational bonding