Fiction
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A director is enthralled by his two lead actors in a beguiling exploration of artistic obsession
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The Booker winner’s brilliant eighth novel expands on his theme of what it means to be not-quite-human, exploring love and loyalty through the eyes of an android
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Three lighthouse keepers in 70s Cornwall vanish in an elegant update of an early 20th-century mystery
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As a queer Indigenous kid, Gary Lonesborough was alienated by the books he read. He hopes his new YA book gives a child like him the acceptance he never had
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Mary Beth Keane’s rich debut is republished, Lisa Feldmann Barrett makes neuroscience snappy, and Isabel Allende engrosses with a Spanish saga
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A neuroscientist tries to make sense of the loss of her father and brother in Gyasi’s shrewd follow-up to her award-wining debut, Homegoing
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The Nobel prize-winning writer turns the Ring cycle drama into a grim dialogue about capitalism’s perils
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Susan Taubes’s only novel was panned when it was published in 1969. Deborah Levy re-examines the witty story of one woman’s epic quest for freedom
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The Books of Jacob, praised by the Nobel prize judges and winner of Poland’s prestigious Nike award, will be published in the UK in November
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The novelist on the influence of Benedict Kiely, the comforts of Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and feeling changed by Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
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Set a millennium from now, this ambitious diatribe against human irresponsibility becomes a polemic rather than a novel
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The Nobel laureate examines loneliness, sacrifice and the meaning of love in a novel narrated by a machine with feelings
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From the dark visions in Lord of the Flies or The Beach to the gentle wit of Tove Jansson, author Lucy Clarke picks her favourites tales of survival and isolation
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A young woman weighs faith and science as she searches for meaning in the wake of family tragedy
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State of Terror, written by Clinton and author Louise Penny, will follow a novice secretary of state after ‘four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage’
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From the Swiss Alps to the Utah desert via Crystal Palace, a sticky end can find you anywhere in this month’s mysteries
Australian book reviews Friends & Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford review – an intimate, epiphanic portrait of millennial city life