Fiction

Gayl Jones, Imani Perry and Sharon Olds are among the finalists for the 2022 National Book Awards, to be held in November in...

Reasons Not to Worry by Brigid DelaneyNonfiction, Allen & Unwin, $24.99Things just happen to Brigid Delaney. In her weekly column for the Guardian,...

Tina GaudoinConstable, £25, pp326Raine Spencer is best remembered today as the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, but, as Gaudoin reveals in her...

Mariana Enríquez, 48, lives in Buenos Aires. She is the author of nine books, including two short story collections, The Dangers of Smoking...

American author Gayl Jones is powering into her eighth decade with a new novel only a year after the publication of her epic...

Reading Here Be Leviathans, I was reminded that everyone – you, me, all of us – will die. Sooner or later, everyone we...

The Russo-Ukrainian war did not start with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The conflict goes back to 2014 and the...

Oscar winner Tom Hanks’s debut novel has been announced, and is due out next year. The book, Hanks’s second foray into fiction –...

Danny Ramadan, a Syrian-Canadian author, is a prominent advocate of LGBTQ+ and refugee rights. Like his debut, The Clothesline Swing, which won the...

Robin InceAtlantic, £16.99, pp320You may think you have a book problem but, as likely as not, comedian Ince’s will dwarf it. Incapable of...