📰00Our verdict on the Booker shortlist: this is what novels should doThe Telegraph·Claire Allfree·about 1 month ago#SOB03m8e#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#fictionbooks#cultureeditorschoice#novels+7 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagA strong field of nominees has produced a slate of fiction you’ll want to spend time with – and will be surprised by15s0Read later0Read More
📰00Western Lane by Chetna Maroo: squash and heartbreakThe Telegraph·Claudia Rowan·about 1 month ago#6D8ty492#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#maroo+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagChetna Maroo’s novel Western Lane follows an 11-year-old girl coping with the loss of her mother, but it never quite catches emotional fire15s0Read later0Read More
📰00How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney: a simplistic misfireThe Telegraph·Claire Allfree·about 1 month ago#W76Fl5hQ#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#cultureeditorschoice#jamie+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagElaine Feeney returns with How to Build a Boat, about a neurodiverse schoolboy, but the purchase and power of her debut are missing15s0Read later0Read More
📰00Pearl by Siân Hughes: grief, loss, medieval poetry – a gemThe Telegraph·Jake Kerridge·about 1 month ago#Rej2HH2o#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#marianne+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagSiân Hughes’s debut novel, from the indie Indigo Press, is a rare gem that fully deserves its Booker longlisting, and your attention15s0Read later0Read More
📰00The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff: a hair-raising journeyThe Telegraph·Lucy Scholes·about 1 month ago#toWY8WZ0#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#fictionbooks#review#groff+7 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagLauren Groff’s new novel, The Vaster Wilds, is a rivetingly tense 17th-century tale of a girl bidding for freedom from a colonial fort15s0Read later0Read More
📰00The Bee Sting by Paul Murray: a first-class domestic novelThe Telegraph·Jake Kerridge·about 1 month ago#grdA2CfD#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#fictionbooks#cultureeditorschoice#family+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagPaul Murray’s The Bee Sting, deservingly longlisted for the Booker, circles intelligently around an Irish family mired in friction15s0Read later0Read More
📰00All the Little Bird-Hearts, Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow: a triumphThe Telegraph·Catherine Lough·about 1 month ago#uh8eRaeY#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#cultureeditorschoice#sunday+7 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagIn Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow’s superb Booker-longlisted debut, an autistic woman sees a pair of interlopers inveigle their way into her life15s0Read later0Read More
📰00Our verdict on the new Mick Herron, and the autumn's best crime novelsThe Telegraph·Jake Kerridge·about 1 month ago#X7l6X8Y5#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#fictionbooks#cultureeditorschoice#novel+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagThis season, spy thrillers and crime stories are sweeping us from 19th-century Essex to the grit of California at its worst15s0Read later0Read More
📰00Rouge by Mona Awad: sultry, disturbing gothic fictionThe Telegraph·Lucy Scholes·about 1 month ago#mT2mfWUg#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#belle+7 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagMona Awad’s sinister fourth novel, Rouge, follows a young skincare-obsessed woman who has lost her mother in suspicious circumstances15s0Read later0Read More
📰00Yours from the Tower by Sally Nicholls: a tale of three gutsy Victorian girlsThe Telegraph·Emily Bearn·about 1 month ago#hPRixC8U#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#nicholls+4 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagSally Nicholls's latest historical novel Yours from the Tower is a rewarding read for youngsters that never feels like a dull lesson15s0Read later0Read More
📰00The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut: a miracle of a novelThe Telegraph·Rupert Cabbell-Manners·about 1 month ago#H8LbDPmq#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#fictionbooks#nuclearweapons#neumann+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagBenjamín Labatut’s brilliantly cerebral new novel spans eight decades, (at least) three geniuses, and the dawn of the technological age15s0Read later0Read More
📰00Prophet Song by Paul Lynch: Ireland as a police stateThe Telegraph·Declan Ryan·about 1 month ago#svR69ybE#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#lynch+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagPaul Lynch’s Booker-longlisted dystopia imagines the creep to totalitarianism through one family’s tortuous experiences15s0Read later0Read More
📰00Can Millie Bobby Brown write novels? Absolutely notThe Telegraph·Jessa Crispin·about 1 month ago#zVcCYq9Y#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#fictionbooks#strangerthings#brown+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagSome say there’s nothing this young star can’t do, but her first book, Nineteen Steps, a flat and repetitive wartime romance, disproves that15s0Read later0Read More
📰00A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare: Stalin on the telephoneThe Telegraph·Orlando Bird·about 1 month ago#nKeEmwJ6#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#pasternak+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagBoris Pasternak faced this plight in 1934. Ismail Kadare’s novel, A Dictator Calls, imagines the full range of what might have happened next15s0Read later0Read More
📰00The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell: a trip to the MoonThe Telegraph·Declan Ryan·about 1 month ago#nBi0L9IL#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#celine+7 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagNominally set in revolutionary France, Adam Thirlwell’s protagonist meets Napoleon and Marie Antoinette in this knotty novel of ideas15s0Read later0Read More
📰00How to Be a French Girl by Rose Cleary: a sinister thrillThe Telegraph·Sophie Dickinson·about 1 month ago#69DbX7AA#comment#clip0_12770_4676#books#review#fictionbooks#french+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagRose Cleary’s deft debut novel, How to Be a French Girl, swerves from middle-of-the-road to darkly off-piste, with plenty of wit en route15s0Read later0Read More
📰00Is this America’s smartest – and strangest – short-story writer?The Telegraph·Leo Robson·about 1 month ago#oL1HwvQB#clip0_12770_4676#books#fictionbooks#cultureeditorschoice#review#williams+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagAs proved by I Hear You’re Rich, Diane Williams’s fiction, long beloved by those in the know, is joyful, unnerving and linguistically spry15s0Read later0Read More