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20 July 2024

  • Halle Butler From Orion Books

    Book of the day
    Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler review – witty millennial angst

  • China Miéville and Keanu Reeves.

    ‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix

19 July 2024

  • Chelsea in London provides the setting for Imposter Syndrome.

    Crime and thrillers roundup
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

  • Lorrie Moore.

    The books of my life
    Lorrie Moore: ‘I would never read literature for comfort’

18 July 2024

  • Australian author Finegan Kruckemeyer and the cover of The End and Everything Before It

    Australian book reviews
    The End and Everything Before It by Finegan Kruckemeyer review – a dreamy alternative to the world we live in

    The playwright’s debut novel is an intergenerational saga that explores how fostering a strong sense of community brings happiness and harmony
  • Austin Duffy.

    Cross by Austin Duffy review – a tense Troubles tale

    The transition from violence to political change is explored in this novel of betrayal and brutality in Northern Ireland
  • Ormiston Pound River at West Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory

    Book of the day
    The Echoes by Evie Wyld review – ghosts of the past

    A woman is haunted by her traumatic Australian childhood – and her dead boyfriend – in a darkly funny novel that hints at hope

17 July 2024

  • Writer George RR Martin smiles at the camera

    Game of Thrones’ George RR Martin falls foul of Glasgow sci-fi event’s strict rules

    Author’s efforts to take part apparently stymied by application protocol, but he still plans to attend Worldcon
  • Lily Collins in Emily in Paris, Richard Gadd in Baby Reindeer and Jeremy Allen White in The Bear

    If you like Baby Reindeer, you’ll love Young Mungo! 29 terrific TV shows – and the books to read instead

    Want to watch less and read more this summer? Let your favourite series be a guide to clever, funny, moving titles you won’t be able to put down
  • Women carrying baskets up rocks in Meghalaya, India

    Funeral Nights by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih review – an ode to storytelling

    Travellers gather before a feast of the dead in this homage to Arabian Nights which spotlights a little-known community in northeast India

15 July 2024

  • A man talks on his mobile phone as he walks a deserted street backdropped by newly built apartment buildings in Seseña

    ‘Huge scars’: novelist finds a fractured Spain in its half-built houses

  • The Wendy Award

    Graphic novel of the month
    The Wendy Award by Walter Scott review – the voice of a bewildered generation

14 July 2024

  • Austin Duffy standing with the shoreline and sea in the background.

    Cross by Austin Duffy review – an IRA ceasefire with bloody strings attached

  • Debut authors for 2019 feature, for New Review, 06/12/2018. Sophia Evans for The Observer Rosie Price

    The Orange Room by Rosie Price review – quietly devastating portrait of coercive control

  • The Berlin Wall, Germany - 1989<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sipa Press / Rex Features ( 165153c ) MAN PEERING OVER THE NEWLY BUILT BERLIN WALL - AUG 1961 The Berlin Wall, Germany - 1989

    The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson review – love in a fractured city

  • author Claire Lombardo +-+credit+Nina+Subin+PREFERRED+cleared+worldwide

    In brief: Same As It Ever Was; Hello Beautiful; The Golden Rule – review

13 July 2024

  • C Pam Zhang - OBSERVER BOOKS 14.7.24

    Books interview
    C Pam Zhang: ‘I was aware of the drift towards fascism in Europe’

    The Chinese-born, US-based author, whose debut was longlisted for the 2020 Booker, on pursuing pleasure in a volatile world, her taste for chip butties and the joys of being a naive reader
  • Benjamin Labatut (1)

    ‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut

    His page-turning books about quantum physics and game theory have given the Chilean writer a cult following – and won him famous fans from Stephen Fry to Björk and Barack Obama
  • Orlaine McDonald author photo

    No Small Thing by Orlaine McDonald review – a true-to-life tale

    This refreshingly honest debut explores a south London family shaped by the pain of emotional neglect

12 July 2024

  • Irenosen Okojie

    Science fiction roundup
    The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

    Curandera by Irenosen Okojie; The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman; The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer; Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
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