Guardian review
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Artist Simon Bill’s novel features a feckless painter offered a position at a neurological clinic when the other candidates drop out
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A richly researched, supremely sane discussion of the causes of and ways of preventing crime
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Burglars look at buildings in a different way, seeing lift shafts that can be shimmied up and plasterboard walls to cut through. This playful book is crammed with good anecdotes
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The award-winning author on race, satire and watching samurai films with his mother
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Hot on the heels of her Baileys success, McInerney’s Desmond Elliott win offers further proof of an Irish literary boom
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Whitman, Mapplethorpe and Edmund White star in Megan Bradbury’s beautifully written debut about what defines America’s most famous city
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This is a thought-provoking manifesto for a ‘connected world’, a suggested agreement on how we disagree. But is freedom of expression what Garton Ash says it is?
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Ten women are abducted and held prisoner in the Australian outback in Charlotte Wood’s powerful modern-day parable
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The author of The Perfect Storm investigates the trauma experienced by returning soldiers, and argues the main problem lies in the divisions and tensions of western society
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Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: Mark Vanhoenacker has written a beautiful, contemplative book that reveals nature’s wonders and reassures nervous flyers
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Artists and authors have long celebrated the picturesque qualities of the English landscape, but there is a counter-tradition – particularly in children’s literature – that unearths the savage violence of nature
Books blog Abiola Oni announced as winner of the BAME Short Story prize