Tracy Chevalier: ‘Woolf’s The Waves will be like medicine – I won’t like it, but it will do me good’
The novelist on the comfort of Dodie Smith, how Anne Tyler made her want to be a writer – and why she doesn’t reread books
Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley review – folk horror spans the centuries
The chill of the supernatural pervades these unsettling tales, following a settlement’s history from the deep past to the near future
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?
The Miles Franklin winner’s most experimental book yet opens as fiction interrupted by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing
Duets review – co-written stories that sing
From the horrifying to the hilarious, this collection of collaborative tales is endlessly inventive
Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize
Author Kamel Daoud sued over claim he used life of wife’s patient in novel
Woman says French-Algerian writer’s prize-winning Houris uses her story as she told it to therapist Aicha Dehdouh
Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital tops UK bestseller list
The short novel narrating a day in the life of six astronauts on the International Space Station becomes the first book to top the charts in the week of its win
Stay With Me by Hanne Ørstavik review – looking for love
The acclaimed Norwegian author explores the impact of childhood trauma in this portrait of a life lived in fear
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller review – light in the darkness
Set during the Big Freeze of 1962-3, this story of two marriages brilliantly evokes the legacy of the second world war
Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate
Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package
The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: a whole new perspective
Editorial: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, a love letter to our wounded planet, is the perfect choice for the political moment
Juice by Tim Winton review – eloquent cry of a climate vigilante
This sci-fi tale of avengers hunting polluters in a scorched Australian dystopia serves as an essential call to arms over global heating
The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter review – an innovative spy tale
A former MI5 agent establishes herself as a heroine for the ages in a fresh thriller about intelligence-gatherers past and present
Colm Tóibín: ‘Ireland today is a much freer place’
The Irish author on how the sequel to his bestselling novel Brooklyn was inspired by the film, life in LA, and his thoughts on Trump’s victory
In brief: Nobody’s Empire; Cocktails With George and Martha; Never: The Autobiography – review
A touching coming-of-age novel from the Belle and Sebastian singer; a blow-by-blow account of a classic film; and pop star Rick Astley’s idiosyncratic life story