Books

The comedian who filled Wembley and walked away talks about fame, his disappearing act and his excellent new book

Tayari Jones’s Kin builds a messy, funny, tragic world of female friendship and fate

The hard right rabble-rouser keeps boasting Suicide of a Nation is the number one paperback in the country. Except it isn't

Before Google Maps, travellers had to rely on guides and phrasebooks that mixed useful advice with imperial arrogance and surreal oddities

Nonesuch brings magical realism to wartime London to dazzling and profound effect

It’s uncomfortable to think that an authoritarian nation run by a king is more forward-looking than the UK. But when it comes to renewable energy, the kingdom is leaving everyone else in the dust

The Spectator editor and Conservative peer has registered an advance to write a book with the Lords authorities

A new history finds divisions that predate colonialism - and suggests that the future might be federal

The academic turned Reform campaigner – at the centre of an AI storm – was mocked by his GB News co-workers after a disastrous debate

The region is getting hotter and drier to the point of being uninhabitable. And in the coming decades, as the world moves to renewables and the oil price starts to collapse, what then?

A previously unseen chapter of Matt Goodwin’s new book Suicide of a Nation has fallen into our hands. Is is real, or satire?* Read on to find out…

Liam Byrne has written another note – this time on how the government can find its own story and stop Reform. Will No 10 listen?

The American writer and activist tells us not to despair – the monsters may be pushing back hard, but momentum remains with progressives

Now in his 90s, the national treasure fills his latest diaries with bristle and bite

The novel Shy Girl has been withdrawn over claims that ChatGPT was used in its creation – something the publishers failed to notice

The academic turned hard right rabble-rouser is facing claims about the research in his latest screed

With her distinctive bold colours, grey curls and bright scarves, Saadawi became a feminist icon. Margaret Atwood called her ‘one of the great radical voices of our time’

Culture minister Wolfram Weimer has cancelled grants for three left-leaning stores

A haunting literary adaptation is laced with grief and guilt

The author’s delicious dark comedy Look What You Made Me Do is a welcome return to form

Tarnished by Iraq and Mandelson – but two new books show they made millions of lives better

Morgan Jones’s new book unpicks the chaos of the campaign for a second referendum

The successes and flaws of The Walsh Sisters adaptation reveals a writer who truly understands women

A remarkable and horrific audio archive of survivors’ stories documents individual upheavals and collective trauma

Her memoir, A Hymn to Life, details unimaginable abuse at the hands of the man she loved – and still manages to leave you with hope

The genre is big business - but Alice Evelyn Yang’s intoxicating debut novel has ambitions well beyond gore and fantasy

As Ramadan and Lent collide, so do old religion, modern body anxiety and the eternal quest for a reset

Every child who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life

Dominic Sandbrook’s new literary podcast struggles with forced chemistry

How the creator of Peanuts created humour from loneliness and sadness

The former iCarly actor’s debut novel, Half His Age, rewrites the story of an age-gap relationship in crude, embarrassing, brilliant style

What happens to real women when men get used to girlfriends they can design and silence?