Doppelganger by Guardian US columnist Naomi Klein has become the inaugural winner of the Womenâs prize for nonfiction, while Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan has been named winner of the fiction prize.... Read more »
You Like It Darker by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton, £25)This new collection of 12 stories opens with Two Talented Bastids, which questions how two ordinary guys from a small town in... Read more »
Jiaming Tangâs debut novel opens in China in the 1980s, at the Workersâ Cinema in rural Fuzhou, a cruising spot for queer men. The cinema is described as a magical, almost utopian... Read more »
In Julia Armfieldâs third book the effects of the climate crisis are felt daily. The city in which sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes live has been transformed by endless rain â and... Read more »
A few weeks after Emily Henryâs second romance novel, You and Me on Vacation, was published in May 2021, she noticed a âgiantâ spike in sales. Her editor and agent had noticed it... Read more »
Historical fiction is often a well-loved genre for book clubs. It allows members to learn more about a particular time and place at their leisure while enjoying the twists and turns of... Read more »
What do we mean when we say a novel is a “sad girl novel”? I could list a dozen popular novels published over the last few years that have had this term... Read more »
To write fiction about art is notoriously hard. Inventing bad art is easy, an excellent parlour game, but to imagine a successful artist you have to create a body of work that... Read more »
Michael Magee, 33, won this year’s Nero debut fiction award for Close to Home, now out in paperback, as well as last year’s Rooney prize for Irish literature (previously awarded to Anne... Read more »