Fiction Fiction What We Can Know Ian McEwan McEwan’s future-set new novel describes the “Inundation” of Britain after a Russian warhead goes off accidentally in the middle of the Atlantic, causing a... Read more »
A new novel by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro is set to be published in March next year. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger, announced by his UK publisher Faber, is a spy caper.... Read more »
Gromit, the canine star of the Wallace and Gromit animations, is “breaking his silence” and writing a memoir. After “bottling everything up for a long time”, the moment has come for him... Read more »
Nine-year-old girls reciting the gnomic prose of Don DeLillo – it sounds like an extreme English detention, but for film-maker Ben Rivers this was the foundation of his new movie, and the... Read more »
Fiction Fiction Ben Lerner A middle-aged writer returns to his college town to record the final interview with his 90-year-old intellectual mentor. But he’s broken his phone, and doesn’t seem able to... Read more »
Zadie SmithMargaret Busby’s Part of the Story: Writings from Half a Century is the record of one woman’s lifelong passion for the literature and life of Africa and its diaspora, wherever she... Read more »
Not With a Bang by Temi Oh (Solstice, £20)The four daughters of a doomsday prepper were trained what to do in an emergency: grab their bags and head for the well-stocked bunker... Read more »
Sales of the whistleblowing memoir Careless People increased by more than 300% in the UK the week after its author was “silenced” during an appearance at Hay festival following legal action by... Read more »
When a British journalist named Joseph Adelaide tracks down a reclusive artist to his remote farmhouse in the south of France, his plan is to interview him for a magazine profile. Edouard... Read more »