Mia Levitin

Retreating from a failed marriage and striking out for pastures new are the themes at the heart of the acclaimed novelist’s new memoir

Biography of George Weidenfeld’s mission to publish ‘the mavericks, the scandalous, the subversive’ is written like a school report

Latest novel from the Booker winner explores family dynamics with wit and empathy

Writer brings to bear a poet’s precision, a novelist’s empathy and an essayist’s concentrated thought

Eileen O’Shaughnessy ran the home and farm, typed and edited his manuscripts, backed him financially and tended to his TB despite her ill-health

Nolan’s follow-up to Acts of Desperation works better as literary fiction than as a whodunnit

The author avoids many pitfalls that plague debut novels, offering fully fleshed-out characters and careful plot progression

Salman Rushdie’s 15th novel, about an eternally youthful femme fatale fighting religious fundamentalism, sticks to the author’s fiction formula

Short stories from the 1940s and 1950s are paired with insightful responses from contemporary writers

Story loosely based on reality is both sensual and sensory, capturing 1890s London with the eye of a historian and a Jamesian knack for metaphor

The first joint-work to win the Goldsmiths Prize uses an innovative and effect way to tell the story of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago still at the mercy of colonialism

This excellent Christmas annual makes for a handsome addition to the bookshelf

Novel follows the story of Gretel, the now 91-year-old sister of Bruno, the protagonist of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Book review: A wry wit permeates the storytelling in this debut collection of interlinked stories

Catherine Prasifka’s coming-of-age novel set in Dublin vividly captures an anxious generation