Fiction
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Editorial: Trees, vision and shelf space are all needed for an exemplary project that will hide books for a century
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Author Laura Kay is part of a new wave of authors releasing uplifting queer literature that casts its characters as the heroes of their lives – not the victims
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Noughts & Crosses author praised by judges for ‘challenging issues of injustice in a way that is totally engaging’
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The director and star both played with their images in a knotty and exciting adaptation of Philip K Dick’s prescient short story
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Michael Winkler’s Grimmish has been embraced by judges of the $60,000 prize – and by readers, whose support has been ‘truly astonishing’
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The first English translation of these subtle stories of self-worth and domestic frustration is a revelation
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A razor-sharp story of familial tensions; a paleontologist’s fascinating history of mammals; and a rich guide to hummingbirds across America
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The Three Women author once again explores female desire and sexual power dynamics in a collection of stories that often feel shockingly true
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The award-winning author on the urgency she felt when writing her pandemic novel, how she relates to Sarah Connor from The Terminator and what Egon Schiele’s paintings make her feel
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A teenage ghost observes the erotic and creative bond between composer and author in Stevens’s playful debut novel
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Voices of everyday things fill The Book of Form and Emptiness, rooted in how she experienced the loss of her father
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Upswell publisher Terri-ann White says she is distressed by controversy around former Miles Franklin prize longlist novel The Dogs
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Bill Murray’s movie wrote the playbook, but TV is playing catchup with a rich haul of time-loop shows from Life After Life to The Time Traveler’s Wife and now The Lazarus Project. So why do the writers curse themselves every day?
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This Dutch novel takes aim at the depersonalising corrosiveness of the internet, but becomes laboured
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An affair drives the author’s highly charged exploration of love in fiction, from marriage to adultery, parenthood to friendship
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A remarkable debut that imagines the Irish writer communing with lost loved ones in a Paris nursing home
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The Book of Form and Emptiness is praised by judges for its ‘sparkling writing, warmth, intelligence and poignancy’
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Daphne du Maurier, Mervyn Peake and Angela Carter are among the authors enchanted by these shadowy borderlands of civilisation
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