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Fiction

  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Review
    Table for Two — Amor Towles has fun with the follies of American life

    The bestselling author’s short-story collection introduces a beguiling cast of chancers, cheaters and cosseted husbands

    An elderly couple at a restaurant sit at an outside table under a red umbrella enjoying a drink. The man is looking at the woman, who is looking at her phone
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Review
    Women as witches and Elizabethan intrigue — the pick of new debut fiction

    Impressive recent arrivals include chauvinism in rural Ireland, Gen Z internet addiction and Kit Marlowe’s life reimagined

  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Review
    Real Americans — money, migration and the cost of dreaming

    Rachel Khong explores the burdens of parental love in a saga that follows three generations of a family from China to the US

    Large cushions along the bank of a river with a view of a city skyline
  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The Midwife, by Rachel Cusk

    ‘His self-containment and solitude had caught her eye, but it was his disapproval that seduced her.’ A story about art and money, containment and escape

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    ObituaryAlice Munro
    Alice Munro, short story writer, 1931-2024

    Canadian Chekhov who compressed the epic complexity of the novel into just a few pages

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Review
    England Is Mine — music, masculinity and online culture

    Nicolas Padamsee’s subtle, satirical debut smartly explores the reasons frightened teenage boys become dangerous men

    A person, seen from behind, sits in front of a computer screen
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Review
    Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru — when artists and capitalism collide

    A thrilling examination of wealth and privilege during the pandemic — and a sharp dissection of the inner workings of the art world

    A blurred image of a woman walking past a shoe shop
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Review
    Long Island — Colm Tóibín’s irresistible Brooklyn sequel

    The continuation of the Eilis Lacey saga is a moving, magnetic story of middle age and the pain of migration

  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    ReviewCrime books
    Best new crime books — back to Fjällbacka and Mo Hayder’s final novel

    Camilla Läckberg takes us back to her Christie-style Swedish village while Abir Mukherjee’s surprising move into blockbuster thrillers pays off

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  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Review
    Overstaying — the danger of strangers

    Swiss writer Ariane Koch’s debut novel offers a witty, folkloric perspective on immigration and identity

    Couple of dark figures smoking on a balcony
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Review
    The Ministry of Time — perspectives on love and mortality

    Kaliane Bradley’s time-travel novel moves and amuses with its mix of science fiction, romance and history

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  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Review
    All Fours — Miranda July on a mid-life reawakening

    The writer and filmmaker rewrites the sex novel with a provocative exploration of sexuality in perimenopause

  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    Review
    Best new thrillers — double trouble for Bond fans, Russian finger-pointing and a mafia kidnap plot

    A modern makeover for Fleming’s spy and a reissue of a classic actioner — but little relief after the gulag

  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    Nilanjana Roy
    Frighteningly good — in praise of horror fiction

    Modern writers are breathing new life — and fresh ghosts and monsters — into a genre that reflects on real-world nightmares

    A person with an alarmed expression sits at a candlelit dinner table, cutlery in their hands, reading a book propped up against a jug. A black cat is seated next to the person
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    Review
    Help Wanted — Adelle Waldman’s satire on America’s invisible workforce

    Corporate hypocrisy and the futility of hard graft are skewered in this novel on working culture in a fictional superstore

    A man in a bright green tabard pulls a line of trolleys
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Review
    The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez — alienated in Panama

    A novel about the building of the canal and the people whose lives were changed

  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Review
    Enlightenment — Sarah Perry’s novel of passions and cosmic ideas

    A story of the lives and loves of four people in contemporary Essex broadens out into a dazzling exploration of science and religion

    an illustration of four people floating in space. Around them are celestial bodies and the Earth at a distance
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Review
    Grow Where They Fall — lessons in love

    Michael Donkor’s story of a Black English teacher whose parents struggle to understand his sexuality is subtle and illuminating

    Two young boys carry out an experiment in a science lab
  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    Review
    The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota — a class act

    The Booker nominee’s finely plotted new novel focuses on post-industrial politics in northern England, and also a great deal more

  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Review
    How to Make a Bomb — a brilliant, nightmarish descent into terrorism

    Rupert Thomson’s exceptional novel makes co-conspirators of his readers in the story of a history professor’s mid-life breakdown

    A man sits by a window
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Review
    Choice by Neel Mukherjee — worlds within worlds

    This globe-hopping new novel is a bold study in human connection

    A composite illustration of a person’s face, made up of pieces of different people’s pictures joined together
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Review
    Your Absence Is Darkness — a rich mosaic of Icelandic storytelling

    Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s amnesiac narrator pieces together past and present in a radiant translation by Philip Roughton

    A lone figure strides on rocks by the sea, with mist covering the tops of mountains in the distance
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Review
    Before the Queen Falls Asleep — love in a traumatised world

    Palestinian author Huzama Habayeb’s bittersweet love-letter of a book meshes the personal and political to moving effect

    Image of a girl holding a hand with plants in the background
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Are video games coming for the novel?

    With immersive storylines and powerful, emotive writing, some of the most thrilling fiction out there is being created in game form

    A video game scene depicting a rundown port town
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Review
    One Day author David Nicholls’ new novel proves he’s still a master of the love story

    The bestselling writer’s latest tale, You Are Here, will make you feel terrific

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