Devotion by Hannah Kent review – 19th-century voyage of discovery
Two young Prussian women emigrate to Australia in Kent’s rapturous but overblown third novel
A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp review – power games
This gripping debut about an opera singer’s relationship with an older man explores issues of financial and sexual inequality
Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths
From James Joyce to Ali Smith and Chigozie Obioma, the archetypal stories of the ancients have inspired some of our best fiction
Official biography of Terry Pratchett to be published
A Life With Footnotes, by the late author’s former assistant and friend, has been authorised by Pratchett’s estate and is due to come out in September
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe review – a saga shaped by tragedy
The 1966 Aberfan disaster frames the story of a young man struggling to come to terms with his past
Most English teachers want a more diverse syllabus, research finds
Survey of primary and secondary teachers shows overwhelming majority would like to teach more representative books
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart review – lockdown tragicomedy
A group of friends hole up in the countryside to ride out New York’s pandemic in the ‘Dacha of Doom’
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
A police officer takes pity on a child murderer, a poor mother has real money troubles and Sophie Hannah’s detectives fail to get away from it all
White on White by Ayşegül Savaş review – storytelling at a chilly remove
A nameless student listens to her landlady’s embittered life story in a spare, oddly enthralling novel indebted to Rachel Cusk’s Outline
Colm Tóibín is named new Irish fiction laureate in ‘exciting time to be a reader in Ireland’
The award-winning writer takes over the role intended to encourage engagement with high quality fiction
Jodorowsky animated Dune in development, says crypto group
Spice DAO, who bought a copy of the 1970s concept art for £2m in November, says a limited series is going ahead despite questions over copyright
Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe review – nerve, verve and hardly any verbs
Modern mores and a certain type of twentysomething male energy clash colourfully in the vibrant voice of this debut novel
In brief: Audience-ology; The Sentence; London, Burning – review
The secret world of Hollywood test screenings, Louise Erdrich’s ambitious new ghost story, and London in the late 1970s
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu review – a patchwork of pandemic stories
Nagamatsu’s zany visions of a future plague give way to more optimistic notes in an affecting if uneven book
Rebecca Watson: ‘This novel was never an act of catharsis’
The Goldsmiths prize-shortlisted author of little scratch on being mistaken for the book’s protagonist, conveying the ‘immediate present-tense experience’, and why her next novel is even more ambitious