Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy: Darkly comic tale of a high-schooler’s illicit affair
McCurdy’s debut novel fails to offer much more than its deadpan, Bret-Easton-Ellis-adjacent comedy
By Kristen Poli
Ausländer - One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile, broken up by forces of hatred and expulsion
Escape from Capitalism by Clara E Mattei: Dismantling dead ends that stop us from seeking real alternatives
Cameo by Rob Doyle: A brave, risky and ambitious metafictional hall of mirrors
New crime fiction: A deliriously fun debut about real estate lust gone wrong, and much more
Booker winner George Saunders: ‘I can rage against Trump all day long. But is it helping?’
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Crucible by John Sayles: An engrossing epic work of historical fiction bolstered by superb dialogue
By NJ McGarrigle
Inhabit the Poem - Last Essays by Helen Vendler: A career of single-minded poetic devotion
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Author Dave Rudden: ‘My earliest memory is passing a Border checkpoint, at once fascinated and terrified by the soldiers’
By Martin Doyle
Possessions by Davina Quinlivan: A ‘fictional memoir’ that makes life hard for itself
By Maija Makela
Television by Lauren Rothery: A novel about deeply cynical people living semi-charmed lives
By Kristen Poli
Barbara Pym is Jane Austen with a side of jumble sales, public transport and laugh-out-loud one-liners
By Jan Carson
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