Joelle Taylor: ‘I picked up The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a swoon of nine-year-old despair’
The poet and playwright on queer classics, cinematic TS Eliot and the comforts of a ghost story
Hekate by Nikita Gill review – the ancient Greek goddess works magic in this retelling
Hekate is a traumatised youngster looking for love and a sense of belonging in this novel imagined in verse
A Great Act of Love by Heather Rose review – a compelling, complex tale of convict Australia
The Stella prize-winning author turns to historical fiction in a novel inspired by a discovery in her own family mythology
The Captive by Kit Burgoyne review – a literary novelist tries his hand at pulp horror
A kidnapping goes the way of the occult in a gory, wildly entertaining romp from Ned Beauman, writing under a pseudonym
Gillian Tindall obituary
Writer, historian and biographer who wove archaeology, social history, myth and religion into her work
Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser review – painfully clunky lessons in art
This French bestseller, in which a girl and her grandfather visit Paris museums, aims to be a Sophie’s World for art history – but the conversations are sentimental and simplistic
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett review – remembering terrible men
In the latest novel from the acclaimed avant garde author, the narrator considers the impact of the relationships she’s left behind
Our Fault review – ultra-glossy Spanish step-sibling melodrama is too bland to be annoying
Third film adapted from the romance novels by Mercedes Ron, originally written in Spanish, feels clunky and cliched
Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa review – behind the scenes at the nail salon
This impressive novel shows how war, colonialism and migration play out in a small room where everyone’s name tag says Susan
‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood
When the novelist was faced with the decision of whether to pursue fertility treatment or focus on her career, her literary ambitions kicked in
The story behind the spy stories: show reveals secrets of John le Carré’s craft
How author researched his plots and letters from Alec Guinness feature in Oxford exhibition
‘I’m going to write about all of it’: author Chris Kraus on success, drugs and I Love Dick
A decade after her debut became a cult hit, the US author talks about the true crime that inspired her latest novel, #MeToo overreach and being married to an addict
Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai
The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storyteller
Heather Rose: ‘My ancestors escaped the French Revolution – that really got me, even as a child’
The Tasmanian author reflects on the dramatic family stories that have shaped her new novel, on a reviving bushwalk to her favourite tree
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu; When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift; The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell; Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Remain by Nicholas Sparks with M Night Shyamalan