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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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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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Novelist Marie NDiaye: ‘To raise children is a form of madness’
The latest book by the French writer, who’s tipped for the Nobel Prize, is a searing mystery based on a famous child-murder case
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Hilary Mantel’s ‘final book’ sets an example to any writer
A Memoir of My Former Self, a non-fiction collection, offers an illuminating, albeit incomplete, coda to Mantel’s life and career
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A forbidden boarding-school affair with sensuality to make you gasp
K Patrick’s Mrs S, about the sparks between a younger and older woman, is a thrillingly evocative debut from a superb young writer
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Who was the mysterious man found dead on an Irish beach?
In Sheila Armstrong’s bracingly-written debut novel, a chorus of local voices tell a tale inspired by the 2009 ‘Peter Bergmann’ case
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A sly and sensual début novel about passion across the age-gap
Madelaine Lucas’s Thirst for Salt is an excellent piece of storytelling, full of romantic intoxication and subterranean upset
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A breathtaking tale of love and war on the 19th-century American frontier
Susanna Moore’s new novel, evocative and taut, follows a young woman escaping an abusive husband – but finding a wider conflict ahead
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Why would someone write so many letters to an octopus?
In The Memory of Animals, a poor new novel from Claire Fuller, a marine biologist bombards us with facts while a pandemic rages away
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Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren review: less Scandi-noir, more Scandi-ha-ha
A failed author grapples with the mystery of his wife’s disappearance, in a wry bestseller that's Sweden's answer to Fleishman is in Trouble
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To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher review: a powerful new variant in Covid lit
This inventive, beautifully written novel begins like a memoir of 2020 – then swerves into sci-fi. But is it all too soon?
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Can ghosts inspire great art?
Jennifer Higgie's The Other Side explores the lives of female artists who dabbled in spiritualism – from Emma Kunz to Hilma af Klint
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This spiky, genre-defying memoir is a posthumous gift from Janet Malcolm
The collage-styled Still Pictures sees Malcolm facing her demons as she turns to her most challenging subject: herself
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Avalon by Nell Zink review: back to basics, in fast-paced, screwball style
The heroine of Zink's sixth novel may be living a life of Dickensian misfortune, but there's no asking for pity in this energetic romp
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The hilarious life of eccentric Lady Mendl – remembered by the author of Madeline
Ludwig Bemelman's To the One I Love Best celebrates a woman who turned interior design upside down (when she wasn't standing on her head)
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No, we don’t like to be beside the seaside – and these dark British artworks show us why
In her new book Looking to Sea, Lily le Brun asks what 20th- and 21st-century British artists reveal about our obsession with the sea
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