How to Make a Bomb by Rupert Thomson review – a stark study of male rage
The destructive desires of an inoffensive family man drive this subversive satire of existentialism
How to Make a Bomb by Rupert Thomson review – struck by sickness, an academic seeks solace in love
A man swaps his comfortable existence for an affair in Thomson’s lyrical study of a midlife crisis
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson review – a magical homage to Catalonia
These taut interconnected novellas, set on the eve of the financial crash, evoke the drama and charm of one of Europe’s most attractive cities
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson review – heartbreak and hope in the city
Three linked novellas offer an unearthly, multilayered view of Barcelona, with its beaches and bars, beauty and dark shadows
Top 10 books about Florence
Seducing writers from Boccaccio to EM Forster, this city has given us gossipy and rich histories, and a shadowy backdrop to crime
Rupert Thomson: ‘I’m drawn to Flannery O’Connor’s quiet savagery’
The novelist on Mary Norton, Thomas Hardy, finding a long-lost brother through his own memoir and publishers’ hype
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson review – life transformed by art
Reinventing themselves and resisting Nazi occupation: the French surrealists Claude Cahun and her lover Marcel Moore inspire a taut, magnificently controlled novel
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson review – arrestingly accomplished
Two real-life artistic pioneers challenge gender boundaries and the Nazis in Thomson’s elegant and menacing 10th novel
Julian Barnes, Sebastian Faulks, Leïla Slimani … the best fiction for 2018
Books by Rupert Thomson, Aminatta Forna and a clutch of brilliant debuts are among the novels to look out for this year
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson review – resists easy categories
A young woman walks out on her life and begins a quest for meaning in Rupert Thomson’s latest bold and compelling novel
David Bowie’s top 100 must-read books
Jack Kerouac, Spike Milligan and Sarah Waters among star's favourite authors, revealed at exhibition in Ontario
Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review
Rupert Thomson's masterful tale of intrigue in 17th-century Florence might be his best one yet, writes Stephanie Merritt