An eerie Scottish tale about a severed hand and a doubting minister
Chris Kohler’s Phantom Limb is a thrillingly unfettered debut novel about miraculous happenings in a faithless world
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Chris Kohler’s Phantom Limb is a thrillingly unfettered debut novel about miraculous happenings in a faithless world
Petrarch, who died 650 years ago, is in danger of neglect. But anyone who has ever been in love should read his sonnets
When poet and novelist Kit Fan received a cautionary phone call, he made the heartbreaking decision to sever ties to his homeland
While adored by Democrats, Vance called Trump an ‘American Hitler’. Now he’s his running mate – is liberal media’s U-turn on Vance to blame?
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
The Tory meltdown was a sign of the fractious spirit of the times. But consensus is possible – here are our politics picks of the year
In the 16 best poetry books of the year, readers meet Shakespeare's wife and Chekhov's sisters, a French comte and a wild London hyena
Plunder?, Justin M Jacobs’s provocative new study of artefacts in the West, casts aside simple slogans and reveals a more complex history
The Newsmongers, a history of tabloid journalism by Terry Kirby, features plenty of strange figures, but some equally strange arguments too
Rare Singles, a lively and good-natured new novel by Benjamin Myers, brings an ageing US soul singer together with an English superfan
From a drunken Hemingway to reprisals against ‘collaboratrices horizontales’, Patrick Bishop offers a gripping account of de Gaulle’s return
Watts and Whiskerton, a smart new novel by illustrator Meg McLaren, follows a dog with a nose for crime and his feline companion
Gold Rush, journalist Olivia Petter’s debut novel, tackles fame and sexual consent, but its admirable aims are let down by its prose
The debut novel by the late Victor Heringer, at last appearing in English, is a witty, restless tale, albeit one rough around the edges
Joy Williams, one of America’s great short story writers, considers how we – and the angel of death – dice with the Devil
Watts and Whiskerton, a smart new novel by illustrator Meg McLaren, follows a dog with a nose for crime and his feline companion
In Sarah Merrett’s thrilling debut, The Others, set in 1900, a young boy loses his astronomer grandmother – and finds a wounded alien
The Fun We Had, a beautiful, gentle, rhyming story by Charissa Coulthard, sees a little girl visit her elderly grandmother, and reminisce
Time Runs like a River, Emma Carlisle’s latest book, uses gentle illustrations and lilting rhymes to foster a surprisingly deep message
Mayowa and the Sea of Words, Chibundu Onuzo’s debut novel, about a girl who takes on a Right-wing MP, sacrifices plot to preaching
How to Be a Genius Kid, by ‘Waldo Pancake’ (Jim Smith), sees two cartoon narrators whisk us through eight fascinating lessons
The Wonderdays, by Clare Povey, has a solid villain, a daring journey and a sensible, albeit overly emphatic, eco-message
In Mary Cathleen Brown’s haunting debut novel, The Tall Man, a 12-year-old boy must solve an old mystery and save an imprisoned child
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
As the Irish singer champions The Forgotten Yeats Sisters for Sky Arts, she talks about women in history and the thrill of rock'n'roll