As spiritual belief shows signs of a quiet revival in Britain, has Christianity regained the underground appeal of its earliest days?
Irene Solà’s exhilarating novel mixes folklore, history and the supernatural in a heady brew
Our new selection features mind-bending cyber-horror, dystopian thrillers and a supernatural Western
A richly detailed biography tracks the puzzles, betrayals and much more that underpinned the writer’s fiction
David Commins’ nuanced analysis of the kingdom’s transformation highlights the ongoing tensions that the monarchy needs to manage
A new collection of tales by this prolific author deserves praise for evoking poignancy and beauty amid nostalgia and neglect
At the turn of the millennium TV, film and music aped pornography to pander to the male gaze. What were the creative industries thinking?
A meticulously researched story of the clandestine activities of the smugglers and escapers from Nazi-dominated Europe
From summer hammock to winter fireside, books can chime with the seasonal rhythms lying dormant in our crowded lives
Why Gen Z are seeing religion as a cool lifestyle choice; Saudi Arabia’s transformation into petrostate titan; how media aped pornography and demeaned women; the flight from the Nazis of Jewish intellectuals; a new biography of Muriel Spark; wistful short stories by DJ Taylor; posthumous works by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz; a stirring Catalan novel of folklore and the supernatural; our selection of economics titles — plus Nilanjana Roy on reading in sync with the seasons
A collection of fragmentary, bittersweet vignettes by the late Nobel laureate builds into a pattern, albeit an elusive one
Johan Norberg on what drove history’s influential civilisations; Ben Chu on the rise of zero-sum economic thinking; plus Germany’s decline and a must-read for monetary aficionados
Mark Mazower on the long history and troubled present of the transatlantic relationship
Artistic tastemaker extraordinaire or charlatan merely posing as a genius writer? For a biographer-detective, there is no more thrilling case
From BookTok cafés to dating events, from writing workshops to cocktail bars, here are some of the capital’s hotspots for bibliophiles
Author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi on ‘Heart Lamp’, the first short-story collection to win the award
Elaine Feeney’s unlikeable protagonist treads well-trodden literary ground — but what do her observations tell us?
Careful listening, long-life companies and lessons from a social entrepreneur
Set in the Shetlands, the debut novel by the lauded Scottish poet showcases his linguistic adventurousness
A woman looks back on her teenage ordeal at the hands of a Paris fashion photographer in a fictional reshaping of trauma
Two timely and myth-busting books show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris
Shaun Walker has unearthed eye-popping tales of spying by agents embedded in western societies under fake identities
An anecdotal and informative book about the tumultuous events of the 14th century that still resonate today
Demonology; Cruise & McQuarrie; US trade deficit; AI slop snafu; oncology 101
Heart Lamp, the first short-story collection to win the award, is also the first to have been translated from Kannada
Three books tell the painful story of an ageing American president and how his catastrophic decision to run again paved the way for a Trump comeback
Tiffany Jenkins’ wide-reaching book explores the personal realm and argues for its defence in the face of today’s scrutiny and social media
Crime in the war-ravaged Balkans of the 1990s, a plot against the UN, geopolitics in Greenland and a Danish police procedural
The Austrian-German writer’s new novel The Director explores totalitarianism through a fictionalised account of the Nazi-era filmmaker GW Pabst. It couldn’t be more timely
A real-life family tragedy is the basis for this International Booker-shortlisted fable of duty, attachment and mental illness
Why some people take extraordinary risks to save others
Lydia Millet’s collection explores the malaise among the different generations of two LA families
A luminous tale about borders, bodies and a sense of belonging alternates between 1960s Italy and 2020s Ireland
Panic about the demise of book reading is overblown — across genres, formats and devices, young people are finding and creating their own storytelling communities
This acutely observed memoir of postwar England might be the highlight of the writer’s illustrious four-decade career
Patrick Wallis’s authoritative account of apprenticeships in early modern England has important lessons for our own time
As a cultural figure, Stein has too often been relegated to the margins. This beguiling biography reasserts her legacy
