Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comment...
A boarding-school escapade becomes a wonderfully acted coming-of-age comedy, as two best friends find their world threat...
Near-mystical musings from a scientist who believes we are on the brink of a revolution in understanding ourselves
In the Danish writer’s latest novel, an eminent scientist withdraws to the countryside
From the Beatles and the World Cup to racism and homophobia, the latest instalment in Kynaston’s series captures a socie...
Her debut earned a record-breaking YA book deal – then came her fallout with Hollywood. The author talks about the press...
At 400-plus pages, Moriarty’s follow-up is too long and offers too little reward, with menopause, vaping teens and even...
The author behind the Treehouse books remembers his friend and collaborator of 35 years, who had a ‘seemingly inexhuasti...
The earl on his globally lauded eulogy for Diana, King Charles’s sausage fingers and toxic Raine, topped off with a lavi...
From an abstract portrait of an actor who might be Natalie Portman to a groundbreaking work of autofiction, we rate the...
In When America Roared, Pulitzer-winning reporter Jonathan Kaufman looks back to a decade of greed and excess, and uses...
Writing from firsthand experience, the author offers an affecting meditation on art, mental fragility and faith