Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel is a gentle triumph
With his seventh novel, Our Evenings, the Booker-winning writer proves that his talents as a keen noticer of the world have only deepened
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With his seventh novel, Our Evenings, the Booker-winning writer proves that his talents as a keen noticer of the world have only deepened
The best-selling Norwegian writer on how his late brother inspired his work, his footballing past and whether crime fiction glorifies police
An Eye For An Eye, the gripping new instalment in Jeffrey Archer’s William Warwick series, is a crime thriller about seeking revenge
The most popular poet in the English language on ‘Instapoetry’, turning down Kamala Harris and why her detractors don’t bother her
Sally Rooney is back with a new novel, Boris Johnson’s memoir hits bookshops and Putin’s greatest political foe publishes posthumously
Serhii Plokhy’s Chernobyl Roulette records the 2022 occupation of the nuclear site – but the drama is often buried behind background detail
Who said comics have to be comic? This year’s crop gave us haunted spas, apocalyptic visions – and the beauty of pastoral France
This Christmas, young readers can look forward to tales of His Majesty, three wily monkeys and a sumptuous reimagining of Peter Pan
Looking for a Christmas present for the music-lover in your life? Try Johnny Cash's lyrics, Sly Stone's memoir or Paul McCartney's snapshots
Our top thinkers turned the quest for hard truths into a mind-blowing funride
Year two of the war produced breathless tales of resistance, rebuttals to Russian propaganda, and the death of a promising young writer
This year, marriage went under the microscope in engrossing tales of mutual obsession, catastrophic union and doublethink
There and Back, the latest volume of the Python’s journals, records mundane, occasionally funny happenings – just as you’d expect
Pistols in St Paul’s, Fiona Smyth’s history of 20th-century building acoustics, has a compelling idea but frustratingly little human drama
AN Wilson’s biography of the German polymath is wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject
While the veteran Labour MP’s career has undeniably broken new ground, her memoir A Woman Like Me reads as rushed, unfocused and impersonal
The best-selling Norwegian writer on how his late brother inspired his work, his footballing past and whether crime fiction glorifies police
An Eye For An Eye, the gripping new instalment in Jeffrey Archer’s William Warwick series, is a crime thriller about seeking revenge
Chief of The Queen’s Reading Room suggests charity’s figurehead may use BookTok trend to further share her love of literature
Intermezzo, the Irish writer’s fourth novel, is a sensual and sad millennial tale. But there’s more to her world view than many people admit
In James Fox’s warmly written debut novel, The Boy in the Suit, a poor mother-son duo raid funerals for free canapés
Cobweb, a new novel by the War House author, follows a little dog heading to London amid the aftermath of Britain’s triumph at Waterloo
Evenfall, a very modern fantasy by the TV presenter and comedian, sees a young boy and his best friends reckon bravely with destiny
Out of This World, a clever suite of poetry for readers of seven-plus, toggles between old memories and future dreams with panache
Book two in Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s Geomancer series, The Storm and the Sea Hawk, follows a young girl’s quest against the ‘wolf queen’
Children’s literature is far more important than adult fiction – here are 12 writers that belong on every bookshelf (and six best banished)
Ukrainian author Okasana Lushchevska’s new book Silent Night, My Astronaut imagines the war through a seven-year-old girl’s eyes
The late children’s writer on his childhood reading, why his characters were never cruel and saying goodbye in his latest work
In Eavan Boland’s posthumous collection Citizen Poet, essays on nationhood, history and language fizz with life and energy
Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include an extraordinary posthumous collection from Gboyega Odubanjo and JH Prynne’s unlikely lullabies
Christopher Childers has spent 10 years on The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse – and his translations sing from the page
From Raymond Chandler's slippery similes to a scene Austen hid, a new exhibition reveals great writers' early drafts and discarded ideas