Juice by Tim Winton review – life after the apocalypse
Set centuries from now, this gripping tale of retribution against the corporations who fuelled climate breakdown has echoes of Cormac McCarthy
Edith Holler by Edward Carey review – an unsettling fairytale
This story of a girl who has never left the theatre where she lives is an enjoyably atmospheric curiosity
Robert Coover obituary
One of the leading lights of US postmodern fiction best known for his 1969 short story The Babysitter and The Public Burning
‘It was a deflating experience’: the novelists who nearly gave up
With earnings having dropped by 60%, it is harder than ever to keep going as a writer – even if your work gets rave reviews
Dusk by Robbie Arnott review – big cat hunters become the hunted in beautiful Tasmanian western
Deeply felt book reimagines myths with fascinating results in story of twins Iris and Floyd
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez review – domestic goddess of grotesque tales
The Argentinian author confirms her gift for making addictive stories full of life from ugly subject matter in this distinctive collection
The Drowned by John Banville review – death and drizzle in 50s Ireland
Tight-lipped humour thrums through the latest in the Booker winner’s Strafford and Quirke crime series, which centres on a university professor and his missing wife
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty review – beautifully crafted debut set in a Native community in the US
Misfortune, guilt and loneliness collide as a man struggles to understand his past and the daughter he never knew in a moving story about identity
In brief: The Catchers; Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife; Every Man for Himself and God Against All – review
Xan Brooks’s second novel takes readers on a musical road trip through 1920s Appalachia; a story-packed history celebrates inspirational medieval women; and a characteristically unusual memoir from Werner Herzog
‘I had a crush on him’: Bernardine Evaristo on writing Mr Loverman
Ahead of a BBC adaptation of her novel, the Booker-winning author reflects on failure, creative alchemy – and being consumed by her closeted seventysomething hero
The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London
With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates
Juice by Tim Winton review – a beautiful story of a horrifying future
The author has simultaneously written a love letter to Australia and hate mail to those who lay waste to the Earth. Read it and weep
The Catchers by Xan Brooks review – this dark picaresque is a delight
A ‘song-catcher’ trawls rural America for hits in this novel of race and music, set against the backdrop of the great Mississippi flood
Publishing’s ‘Super Thursday’ includes books by Boris Johnson, Stanley Tucci and Kate Mosse
A total of 1,900 titles are being published today, including a Rebus from Ian Rankin, memoir from Miranda Hart and children’s fiction by AF Steadman
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult review – Shakespeare was a woman
Through a modern playwright and a Tudor figure, the bestselling American author creates a dual narrative about the erasure of women’s creativity