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‘Wolf Hall’: the sequel

Public and private passions colour Hilary Mantel’s new novel ‘Bringing up the Bodies’, a masterful follow-up to her Man Booker prize-winner, writes James Naughtie

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Thrill in the air

Adam Thorpe’s thriller ‘Flight’ tells the turbulent tale of a freight pilot hunted by killers after getting off a job delivering dodgy goods

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Heavy duty

Liz Moore’s ‘Heft’ is a poignant novel about how an obese, unemployed professor emerges from the solitude of his Brooklyn home

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Survival instincts

‘Ignorance’, the new novel by Michèle Roberts, depicts the fate of four women in a French village under Nazi occupation

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Gunned down

Noah Hawley’s ‘The Good Father’ is a slow-burn thriller told from the perspective of a gunman’s father

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Two veteran Washington scholars have written a gloomy appraisal of Capitol Hill partisanship

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Like-minded misfits

A troubled 15-year-old girl finds love and friendship at a home for young offenders in Jenni Fagan’s ‘The Panopticon’

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Hot cargo

A shipping entrepreneur uses the complex physics of turbulence to hide biological weapons for nervous governments in Simon Ings’s ‘Dead Water’

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Lionel Shriver reviews ‘The Red House’

The new novel by Mark Haddon, author of ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’, depicts a dysfunctional family on holiday

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Life sentence

Herta Müller’s ‘The Hunger Angel’ confronts what was unmentionable and undiscussable for a generation of Romanians

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Monster mash-up

Poetic clichés are stripped bare and reconstructed in Michael Robbins’s highly anticipated debut collection ‘Alien vs Predator’

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