A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins audiobook review – Rosamund Pike turns up the heat
A body on a houseboat and twists galore in this gripping thriller narrated by the Hollywood actor – plus this week’s other picks
Jonathan Franzen: ‘I just write it like I see it and that gets me in trouble’
Twenty years on from The Corrections, America’s most lauded author is back. But will he put his foot in it again?
Wole Soyinka: ‘This book is my gift to Nigeria’
The Nobel laureate has produced plays, poems, essays and even inspired a pop duo but he hasn’t written a novel for nearly half a century - until now
Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin review – family’s subtle poison
A finely observed Irish debut about a monstrous mother and dysfunctional siblings
The climate crisis has made the idea of a better future impossible to imagine
Despite all the analogies for this possibly terminal emergency, it is unlike anything that has come before, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack
Dune review – David Lynch’s intergalactic epic shoots for the moon
There are moments of dreamlike brilliance in this extravagant fable of imperialism – provided you can stay awake to see them
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr review – a joyous epic of love and survival
The Pulitzer winner follows an ancient text from the siege of Constantinople to a spaceship escaping the ruined Earth
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead review – a delicious heist novel
The double Pulitzer winner turns to crime with a tale of 1960s New York gangsters, rendered with superbly observed, affectionate, page-turning brio
Top 10 novels of the 1930s
From George Orwell to Daphne du Maurier, the books that made a decade span village detectives, Edwardian butlers and Bright Young Things
Bewilderment by Richard Powers review – environmental polemic
In this Booker-shortlisted story of a father and his neurodivergent son battling the harm we are doing our planet, fiction is swamped by didacticism
Richard Osman’s second book is one of the fastest-selling novels since records began
The Pointless presenter’s second crime novel, The Man Who Died Twice, has sold 114,202 copies in its first week on sale
Young adult books round-up – review
The heart-rending final act of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses saga, green-fingered teenagers and the spark for a new Netflix film work their magic
Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks review – the collective trauma of a continent
The second novel in the author’s Austrian trilogy is a melancholic tale of lost love and reflection set between the wars
In brief: Hot Stew; Hope Not Fear; The Earthspinner – review
Fiona Mozley’s bawdy Soho follow-up to Elmet, a Syrian refugee’s extraordinary memoir, and east meets west in Anuradha Roy’s latest
Magpie by Elizabeth Day review – domestic noir with a twist
A tense, stylish drama dives deep into the longing and sadness of infertility