Final Inspector Montalbano novel, finished years ago, is published in UK
Andrea Camilleri was determined that his crime series could not be continued by another writer, leaving concluding novel with his publisher long before his death in 2019
Silverview by John le Carré review – one last time among the spies
Published posthumously, this novel of secret service loyalty and treachery is a fine addition to the le Carré canon
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth review – Nigeria unmasked
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s first novel in 50 years is a fearless satire about idealism running up against corruption and greed
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet review – unstable identities
This wry look at 1960s counterculture focuses on an enfant terrible of the anti-psychiatry movement to explore the gaps between appearance and reality
Top 10 urban legends in literature
Writers from Clive Barker to China Miéville and Mariana Enriquez show how city settings for uncanny fiction create a new kind of horror
Sally Rooney turns down an Israeli translation on political grounds
The writer has refused to sell Hebrew translation rights to her latest novel Beautiful World, Where Are You due to her stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict
Tunnels by Rutu Modan review – Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Hergé
This thrilling graphic novel about the hunt for a sacred relic in the divided lands of Israel and Palestine will be read for decades to come
Silverview by John le Carré review – the last complete masterwork?
The great spy novelist’s final full-length book is a precision-tooled cat and mouse chase from a bookshop in East Anglia to the old eastern bloc
State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny review – politics and patriotism
The former US secretary of state’s first novel settles a few scores in an efficiently suspenseful, thoughtful thriller
‘Solved’: the mystery of the ‘slut’ scrawled on The Grapes of Wrath manuscript
Swedish academics think they can explain why the derogatory term appears at the end of Steinbeck’s text
In brief: The Bach Cello Suites; The Book of Mother; Reality and Other Stories
Steven Isserlis gives his take on a musical masterwork, Violaine Huisman dramatises an intense daughterhood and John Lanchester evokes the ghost in our machines
The Impossible Truths of Love by Hannah Beckerman review – secrets and lies
A woman seeks to understand her father’s mysterious last words in a nicely observed novel that keeps the reader guessing till the end
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki review – the story of Oh
Addressing everything from global heating to mental illness, the A Tale for the Time Being author’s latest is big, bold – and narrated by a book
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard review – a beguiling shaggy dog story
The appearance of a large star triggers a series of bizarre events in a strange, frequently absorbing exploration of what happens after death
Sunday with Joanne Harris: ‘Two breakfasts, hobbit-style’
The author tells Samantha Rea about a pleasant day drinking tea, talking and reading, maybe watching an episode of Inspector Montalbano