Novel

Tell Me Everything follows fast on the writer’s two previous novels — part of what she has termed a ‘marathon’ of writing in her sixties

Annihilation is far from faultless. Yet it’s a novel of massive ambition

Sally Rooney’s fourth novel is another case of compare and contrast, with various pairings of anxious characters struggling through their twenties and thirties in picturesque Dublin

The memoir is less a life story than an investigation into the chain reaction of who (and how) the writer is

The novel’s central conceit serves as a sharp satire of our data-driven, algorithmic age

Lesley McDowell restores Lord Byron’s young lover and Mary Shelley’s step-sister to thrilling, palpitating life

Water is both the unifying image and the dominant concern of There Are Rivers in the Sky

The Heart in Winter is a rambunctious galumph of a story

Narratives, counter-narratives, twists and frenzied bouts of cleaning up the timeline ensue

Conflicting ideals of old-school socialism and modern identity politics are fought out against a background of urban desolation worthy of Dickens