Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi favourite to win Women’s prize for fiction
Bookmaker Coral makes Clarke’s second novel 5/2 favourite to take £30,000 award, followed by Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half
Rizzio by Denise Mina review – the men who took aim at Mary Stuart
The crime writer’s daring, hard-boiled take on the brutal murder of Mary, Queen of Scots’ private secretary
The Turning Point by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst review – sparklingly informative
An intriguing new biography of Charles Dickens reveals how 1851 changed him and the world around him, making him the writer we still remember today
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney review – the problem of success
How do you follow two brilliantly acclaimed novels? Rooney examines meaning, art, friendship and the price of fame through the story of two couples
Keeping the House by Tice Cin review – a cult classic in the making
Teenage uncertainty and drugs in crates of cabbages … An exhilaratingly idiosyncratic debut set amid north London’s Turkish community
Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks review – a follow-up to Human Traces
The second in Faulks’s Austrian trilogy is a story of love and doubt set between the wars
4thWrite short story prize goes to ‘bold and striking new voice’ Gift Nyoni
Award for the best new black and minority ethnic writers in the UK goes to Zimbabwe-born author for his story of a boy meeting his father for the first time
Top 10 magical short stories
From Oscar Wilde to Dorothy Parker and Sherman Alexie, these stories capture enchantments that are often camouflaged in ordinary life
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad review – desperate journeys
This timely and unconsoling novel is a deeply humanistic fable about a young boy fleeing Syria and the expat girl he meets in Greece
Miss Marple back on the case in stories by Naomi Alderman, Ruth Ware and more
Agatha Christie’s beloved sleuth to return in new authorised collection featuring contemporary writers including Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse and Val McDermid
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett review – portrait of a lady
A woman seeks escapism then finds herself through literature, in an uncompromising novel that packs a dazzling punch
Up close and dangerous: the irresistible allure of DH Lawrence
For decades he was wildly out of fashion, now DH Lawrence is everywhere – from novels and biographies to a new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
In brief: Family Business; The Cat Who Saved Books; The Unreality of Memory – reviews
A gripping history of John Lewis, a charming tale of a talking cat and a fascinating collection of essays on digital anxiety
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis – review
The Brazilian author’s digressive, rule-breaking 1881 masterpiece distils the entire human comedy to 160 brief chapters
Beyond normal: new novel brings Sally Rooney mania to bookshops across UK
Many shops plan to open early for the arrival of Sally Rooney’s latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You next month