‘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
Lore Segal, Austrian-American author, dies aged 96
Writer of autobiographical novels and short stories drew on her experiences after fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna as part of the Kindertransport
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam review – meandering study of money’s corrupting influence
The author of Leave the World Behind makes some strange choices in this aimless tale of a billionaire’s assistant and her quest to spend his riches
Foul play at the fish farm: ‘Nordic blue’, the hit new genre mixing noir and knitting
Satu Rämö has caused a publishing sensation across Europe – thanks to her novels about Hildur, a mindful cop who solves murders with her needle-clacking sidekick, then soothes her trauma with exercise. We meet the author for rhubarb cordials at her Iceland cottage
The American No by Rupert Everett review – truthful, witty, wise and stoical
Ideas pitched by the actor down the years that never got the green light are brilliantly recast here as wry short stories… and a script
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell review – staring death in the face
The American writer’s vivid and generous third novel, in which a poet is hospitalised by a near-fatal illness, is full of rich, universal themes
The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse review – satisfying family saga finale
The last of the author’s books about the Hugeunot Joubert clan ends with two intriguing personal missions in South Africa
In brief: The Blue Hour; England: A Natural History; A Book of Noises – review
A tale of art, ambition and power makes for Paula Hawkins’s finest novel yet; an intimate nature study embraces culture, language and history; and a fascinating journey through the science of sound
The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon
She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author’s republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature
Zoë Foster Blake: ‘I’d fight Moo Deng. She would win’
The author and skin care entrepreneur on her childhood pet wombat, her biggest beauty tip and her husband Hamish Blake’s mad birthday cakes