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A hypnotic story of life on the International Space Station
Orbital, a slim, soulful and haunting novella by Samantha Harvey, drifts through a single day in the life of six ISS astronauts
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This is a savage attack on Bill Gates – but it’s doomed to fail
Tim Schwab’s investigative book, The Bill Gates Problem, talks a detailed and pugnacious game, but its arguments don’t survive scrutiny
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Did a female astronaut cover up a plot to kill JFK?
When Mary Haverstick began researching an obscure pilot's life, she was looking for a feminist hero. She discovered a monstrous double-agent
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A robot house, an orphan, a jungle – this futuristic novel is a mess
Jungle House, the third novel by Julianne Pachico, has pleasingly odd ideas but none of the conviction or subtlety required to pull them off
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From drugs to jail, Boy George’s life is full of spice – so why is his memoir so bland?
The singer speeds through the experience of selling 50 million albums and writing Karma Chameleon – focusing on his fashion choices instead
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A pitch-black fantasy for brave young readers
Nicholas Bowling's latest novel The Undying of Obedience Wellrest is a marvellous blend of supernatural adventure and teenage anxiety
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The Buccaneers, review: the catty, status-obsessed Edith Wharton is perfect for Gen Z
The great American novelist is overlooked these days, but this sexy modern adaptation could find her a whole new audience
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Has Nadine Dorries lost the plot? Her bizarre book blames Boris’s fall on ‘Dr No’ and ‘the Wolf’
The former Culture Secretary spends 350 pages hunting for a conspiracy in The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson
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‘Big cheeses attract big rats’: the battle over discredited Warhol artworks
An oligarch's strange death, and a lawyer jailed over a $400 million scheme: Richard Dorment's investigative reporting reads like a thriller
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A ‘kidfluencer’ has been kidnapped – but is society to blame?
Social commentary meets thriller in Delphine de Vigan’s smart novel, which explores the frightening phenomenon of the 'kidfluencer'
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Thought Michael Caine was good in thrillers? You should read his own
Deadly Game, the debut thriller by the veteran actor, is surprisingly excellent, with an old-school hero and a plot rich in twists and turns
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The bizarre footballing marriage of Elton John and Graham Taylor
John Preston’s new book Watford Forever, written with the flamboyant pop star’s help, offers a rollicking period tale of footballing success
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Step aside, cocks – why hens should rule the literary roost
Cult novelist (and chicken-keeper) Elspeth Barker's unique talent shines through in Notes from the Henhouse, a collection of quirky essays
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Funny, angry and provocative – not all funeral poems have to be sombre
The Penguin Book of Elegy brings together Wordsworth, Stevie Smith and the ancient Greeks to show how elegies have become a form of protest
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Why it’s time to switch off James O’Brien, the Remainiac foghorn
The LBC host has written a wild polemic about the forces ‘who broke Britain’, but his thesis and examples are weak, and his prose childish
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All the Light We Cannot See, review: Netflix reduce a Pulitzer-winner to a trite, turgid mess
It’s epic, it’s starry... and it's as subtle as a doodlebug. Steven Knight and Shawn Levy have coated Anthony Doerr's masterpiece in toffee
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Bill Bryson is going on a new journey – into your body
A Really Short Journey Through the Body offers children a series of fascinating and varied, albeit sometimes overly brisk, scientific facts
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Was November 1942 the turning point in the Second World War?
Peter Englund's new book argues it was – with testimony from an eclectic cast including Vera Brittain, Sophie Scholl and Humphrey Bogart
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600 sex toys and a diamond dog-collar – the last days of the Indian princes
Maharajahs lived lives of unimaginable wealth – until Independence left them high and dry. John Zubrzycki tells their story in Dethroned
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Terry Hayes returns with a ludicrous thriller the Clintons should read
The writer of I Am Pilgrim offers another tale of a CIA agent breaking bones abroad – and The Year of the Locust is high-octane stuff
