Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley review – in pursuit of false memories
From the Booker-shortlisted author, a tantalisingly unreliable account of childhood, history and mental uncertainty
From Burma to Big Brother: George Orwell’s best books – ranked!
From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?
The Leveret By Anna Goldreich review – a hare mends the pain of baby loss
This bold debut about a woman finding healing after a late miscarriage is written with utter conviction
Richer than Musk: Joyce Carol Oates on her 88 years of watching, writing, feeling and loving
The writer made headlines when she accused the world’s wealthiest man of lacking joy, culture, a sense of beauty … Meanwhile, her own life has been an attempt to understand and explain the world. She talks us through her latest book
Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out
Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately
M John Harrison: ‘If we met a real alien we’d have no clue what they thought’
At 80, SF author M John Harrison is producing some of his best work. He talks about finding his voice, alien intelligence and the advice from Iain Banks that still spurs him on
Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore
Candice Carty-Williams: ‘People feel very attached to Queenie’
The breakout success of her debut created a publishing scramble for Black writers, but has that appetite for diversity endured? Carty-Williams talks about wanting to quit the TV adaptation, why now is the perfect time for her sequel
The Sisters of Serendib by Ayesha Inoon review – Sri Lankan asylum seekers seek a safer life in Australia
Inoon’s second novel follows three sisters settling in a new land, in a book that glosses over darker moments and trauma in favour of hope
A Little Bit Bad by Cassandra Neyenesch review – a sparkling, subversive debut
With its echoes of Miranda July’s All Fours, this tragicomic tale of an American woman’s illicit romance is also a gripping murder mystery
Collapse by Édouard Louis review – coming to terms with a brother’s death
In the latest autofictional instalment of his family saga, the French writer makes sense of his sibling’s violent homophobia and short life
Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year
Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is the first novel from the Nobel laureate since 2021’s Klara and the Sun and draws on the author’s love of music, art and Golden Age cinema
Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens review – the last day of maternity leave is a comic rollercoaster
Parenting is represented in all its hilarious, moving and truthfully plodding detail, in the story of a mother and her two little boys
Wash by Erica Wagner review – vivid portrait of a monumental American
The life of the Brooklyn Bridge’s chief engineer inspires this multifaceted novel
70 brilliant books for the summer
From dynamite debuts to must-read memoirs and magical children’s fiction, here’s our selection of this year’s hottest holiday reads. Plus leading authors share their favourites