The latest listens explore male grief, gay coming of age and environmental activism — plus rediscovering the joys of Jilly Cooper
The author of ‘The Reader’ on his new east-meets-west novel and the post-reunification grievances fuelling votes for the AfD
Escape from Nazi Germany through the Kindertransport initiative was the catalyst for a lifetime of writing
The author of ‘The Reader’ on Germany’s east-west divide; Boris Johnson’s racy but self-aggrandising memoir; Richard Dawkins’ fresh insights into evolution; Charlotte Wood’s Booker-shortlisted novel; a superb history of China’s Cultural Revolution; new fiction from Roddy Doyle and Richard Powers; a 1960s crime yarn reissued — plus Nilanjana Roy on illness and Pilita Clark’s pick of environment titles
The latest reissue of the English crime writer’s novels brings her unsettling yet delightful prose to a new readership
Award comes against a backdrop of growing international appreciation of her country’s culture
The South Korean author won 2016’s Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’. This pick of FT reviews and interviews looks back at her other books
A renewed focus on pandemics, sanatoriums and troubled minds reveals much about the state of our times
The American writer blends ocean exploration and social technology in his Booker-longlisted novel
A third outing for Paula Spencer sees her hard-fought lockdown peace disrupted by the arrival of a middle-aged daughter
Australian writer Charlotte Wood has penned a resonant novel that takes on fundamental questions about life
Spanning the arc of the author’s own life, this personal progress is by turns drolly self-mocking, mischievously randy and touchingly vulnerable
A young woman’s noble ambitions are compromised by the corrupting influence of money
The author follows her acclaimed 2020 novel ‘Small Pleasures’ with a portrait of extraordinary lives in 1960s suburbia
Yael van der Wouden’s novel is powerful tale of buried guilt, repressed desire and the lasting dispossessions of the Holocaust
Neha Dixit’s vivid chronicle of an urban migrant’s struggle to survive plays out against the backdrop of modern India
Flawed characters and toxic chemicals are woven together in Louise Erdrich’s story of three families in a Dakota farming community
The Nobel laureate cements her reputation as one of the great storytellers of our age
Alan Moore starts a five-part series set in the capital, plus a mixed-bag 1970s anthology and a lavish Michael McDowell reissue
The Irish writer’s keenly intelligent new novel swaps her formidable female leads for two brothers summoned together by grief
An uneven collection of writing by the Spanish filmmaker veers from deep personal reflection to cartoonish absurdity
A travel writer is drawn into a world of espionage from Congo to the eastern bloc in this portrait of a vanished era
Some big names missing from a final six that includes the largest number of female authors in the fiction prize’s history
Exciting first novels cover themes from America’s racial divide to writing as therapy — and riding to the rescue in the Iraqi desert
On the 50th anniversary of her bestselling novel La Storia, we remember a writer inextricably linked to Italian political history
