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From buzzy debuts to taut thrillers, acerbic millennial love stories to moving memoirs, Phoebe Luckhurst picks the books to add to your shelf now
Kae Tempest on how their latest album was born out of a breakdown
Lockdown gave the artist time to reflect on a difficult period, and make some much-needed changes
French Braid by Anne Tyler review: a quietly radical story
Anne Tyler’s 24th novel is an extraordinarily rich portrait of a family in flux, says Jessie Thompson
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De Bellaigue’s account of Suleyman the Magnificent is unconventional and gripping, says Melanie McDonagh
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World Book Day: The best non-fiction books to read in 2022
2022 is the year of the memoir - here’s our complete guide to the best new non-fiction arriving this year
Is Lizzie Damilola Blackburn the next Bridget Jones?
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? is a witty millennial novel is about love, life and London. Katie Strick meets the Peckham author
Cleopatra and Frankenstein review: a positively inhalable debut
Coco Mellors’s witty, stylish debut about the fall-out from a snap marriage between an older man and a younger woman is nostalgic and very-readable, says Jessie Thompson
Molly-Mae Hague to release tell-all memoir aged 22
Becoming Molly-Mae: My Story will becoming to a bookstore near you from June 9
US school district bans Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about Holocaust
Author Art Spiegelman said he was ‘baffled’ by the school board’s decision and called it ‘Orwellian’
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston review: gripping
The extraordinary life - and death - of the media mogul whose boundless ambition included becoming Prime Minister reads like a gripping novel which happens to be true
The best (and worst) celebrity cookbooks of 2021, tried and tasted
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The best books for children this Christmas
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Patricia Highsmith: Diaries and Notebooks review
Across almost 1,000 pages, Highsmith’s diaries keep us entertained - and appalled
My Body, by Emily Ratajkowski: furious, conflicted and frustrating
The model and activist’s first essay collection meditates on her own #MeToo moments
Growing Up - Sex in the Sixties by Peter Doggett review
This fascinating new book shows rather conclusively that the sixties was not a sexual paradise
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Silverview by John le Carré review: a minor masterpiece
The final le Carré novel is tinged with an autumnal sense of loss and the self-examination of an old man looking back on his extraordinary career
State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny review
The verdict on Hillary Clinton’s foray into the world of writing political thrillers
Hilary Mantel: ‘Monarchy is a trap — but I was sorry Meghan left ’
As her novel The Mirror and the Light hits the stage, Hilary Mantel talks breaks with Europe, Afghanistan and why there is still mileage in Thomas Cromwell
The Christmas Pig by JK Rowling review: her best since Azkaban
The Harry Potter author gives us her Christmas Carol, and it’s a triumph, writes Amanda Craig
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo review: lively, moving and funny
Her Booker win for Girl Woman Other changed her life overnight - but, in her new memoir, Evaristo shows she was far from an overnight success
Chronicles from the Land... by Wole Soyinka review
Wole Soyinka’s reputation would be perfect if this book - his first novel in 50 years - did not exist, writes Tomiwa Owolade
Matrix by Lauren Groff review: Nunnery life made sexy
It’s very different to anything she’s done before, but Lauren Groff’s fourth novel is profound and transcendental, writes Madeleine Feeny
Bewilderment by Richard Powers review
This Booker-shortlisted follow-up to The Overstory probably won’t nab Richard Powers the prize, but it’s a moving and original read, writes Susannah Butter