The celebrated Australian author wins the prestigious non-fiction award for ‘How to End a Story’, her diaries spanning three decades
The Norwegian novelist continues his ‘Morning Star’ series with a deadpan tale of a self-aggrandising artist
From a posthumous Frederick Forsyth to a new Peter Hain, these page-turners take us from wartime London to modern Israel
Jay Rayner on the secret of a great restaurant; Salman Rushdie’s new short stories; an urgent warning about the tech giants’ dominance; lessons for the Trump era from the US founding fathers; Johnson & Johnson’s loss of public trust; new novels by Lily King and Benjamin Myers; a ‘hitchhiker’s guide’ to a galaxy of reading — plus Alex Clark’s pick of audiobooks and Ruth Padel on the poetry of Seamus Heaney
Aged 78, the writer wryly addresses mortality and remembrance in this collection of death-infused short stories
The best-selling American novelist confronts love triangles, eroticism and mortality in touchingly wry story
The German actor’s notorious 1971 performance is the jumping-off point for a curious novel by Benjamin Myers
Beguiling memoirs from Kathy Burke and Evan Dando; murder and madcap mystery from Ann Cleeves and Bob Mortimer; and Sarah Perry on an extraordinary ordinary man
The final part of a second trilogy by the author of ‘His Dark Materials’ follows an adult Lyra in her alternate world of daemons and angels
Two short essays, translated into English for the first time, offer a coda on the late writer’s life-long preoccupations
The acclaimed South Korean writer uses dystopia, fantasy and the supernatural to weave a tapestry of unsettling, interconnected tales
This immersive, trance-like novel — the Norwegian’s first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature — takes us inside the minds of three lonely men
The ‘I Love Dick’ author again blurs the lines between reality and fiction in a novel that has flashes of brilliance
From judging a book prize to taking part in an online challenge, intensive reading is incredibly rewarding — as long as it doesn’t start to feel like homework
The ridiculous and the terrifying are never far apart in the ‘Starve Acre’ author’s haunting portrait of England at the end of its tether
The writer explores the limits of language and feelings in her novel about a woman’s unorthodox relationship with an elderly man
The Hungarian author, described as a ‘great epic writer in the central European tradition’, won the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. We look back at the FT’s reviews of his novels and novellas
Dystopian novelist recognised for his ‘compelling and visionary oeuvre’ in the central European tradition of Franz Kafka
The British writer whose ‘bonkbuster’ books introduced readers to the world of horsey high society
The acclaimed Hungarian author’s first work published in English is a delicately observed portrait of the alienating effect of authoritarianism
John Tottenham’s hilarious ‘Service’; Anika Jade Levy’s pitiless ‘Flat Earth’; Caragh Maxwell’s wry ‘Sugartown’; Kate Riley’s surprising ‘Ruth’; and Sam Reid’s paean to ancient hostelries in ‘The Pin Jar’
Rinks are full. Players are stars. A new generation of female fans are flocking to games
America’s best-known, least-seen writer is back with a swaggering, hard-boiled caper set in a 1930s US toying with fascism
A struggle to find independence and love in defiance of superstition unfolds across time in this compelling second novel
Olivier Norek’s fast-paced fictionalisation of how the Finns fought off Russia during the second world war carries striking parallels with the present day
