Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny

Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism

A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike review – loveable historical fiction

An irreverent heroine brings late medieval England to life in this raucous tale based on a real-life hoax

Kensuke’s Kingdom review – Michael Morpurgo’s desert island boy’s own adventure

Morpurgo’s yarn about a kid on a round the world voyage is adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and attractively packaged as a family-friendly animation

This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years

No Sally Rooney, one clear favourite and a novel set in space - this is a longlist of unexpected discoveries and big ideas

Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

Edna O’Brien obituary

Novelist who scandalised her native Ireland with The Country Girls, and explored the lives of women who love and suffer

Wife by Charlotte Mendelson review – bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown

A new novel from the author of The Exhibitionist is a family saga of rare insight, with another magnificently grotesque villain at its heart

Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a century

No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review

In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s

They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar review – love and identity on the 1960s music scene

A glorious debut about a Senegalese singer’s rise to stardom and the woman he meets in New York

In brief: Banal Nightmare; Feeding the Monster; Burning Angel and Other Stories – review

Midlife millennial angst abounds in Halle Butler’s sardonic novel, while Anna Bogutskaya bites into our love of horror films, and Lawrence Osborne spans the globe with gripping tales

Pat Barker and Benjamin Myers in conversation: ‘I’m absolutely intolerable when I’m not writing’

Ahead of new books by both, the two English novelists discuss their friendship, the baggage that comes with being labelled ‘northern writers’ and why the Krankies’ memoir is a must-read

Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking by Han Smith review – a secret history

This ambitious debut uncovers a town’s dark past, in a story of teenage dissidence that is alert to the deceptions of propaganda

Mick Herron: ‘Most people didn’t know I was writing – I was a secretive kind of writer’

His spy series became the TV hit Slow Horses, and now his earlier novels are being adapted for screen, starring Emma Thompson. Mick Herron talks about finding recognition

The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey audiobook review – coming of age in a time of fear

Two girls set out to catch the Yorkshire Ripper in this vividly narrated novel of adolescent curiosity and confusion