Fiction

Halfway through Paul Harding’s new novel, This Other Eden, a reporter, a photographer, two doctors and three local councillors visit an isolated island...

On 26 September 2014, 43 male students were abducted in southwestern Mexico. The trainee teachers had commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico...

Nick AchesonChelsea Green, £18.99, pp240During lockdown, many turned to the wonders of the natural world for solace. None more so than renowned Norfolk...

When I was eight, mum read me EB White’s classic, Charlotte’s Web. We took it in turns to cry. Hers were the tears...

“I’ve always had a very strong connection to the sea,” says author Sabrina Imbler, who grew up in California by the Pacific Ocean....

While reading Laura McPhee-Browne’s novel Little Plum, I often thought of Catherine Cho’s memoir Inferno, an intimate chronicle of psychosis after the birth...

In this series we ask authors, Guardian writers and readers to share what they have been reading recently. This month, recommendations include a...

Salman Rushdie’s recovery is progressing after the attack on him five months ago, but he will not be promoting his new novel, his...

‘I’ve been rereading lots of books lately. I saw She Said and wanted to revisit Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s original book. I...

Dani ShapiroChatto & Windus, £16.99, pp288On the way home from a party, 15-year-old Theo Wilf crashes his parents’ car, killing one of the...