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The Nobel-winner’s account of female Russian soldiers is more than a historical document — it is the stuff of history itself
Was the former Breitbart chairman the power behind an insurgent campaign? An investigation into his role makes the case
A dystopian novel of chemically controlled emotions and musical rebellion magically retunes the genre
A biography of Claude Shannon invites us to celebrate the Midwestern mathematician’s pioneering work on binary code
Steeped in sex and death, these short stories eschew social convention for something more innate
A briny mix of memoir, travelogue and literary biography from the author of ‘Leviathan’
Essays and stories that tug at both the heart and the mind
How America’s promise in the 17th century was a measure of England’s failure
Textual versus ‘real’ relationships are explored in an astute tale of modern love
From ‘Angel Hill’
What does it mean to be a writer? Listening to people, encouraging yourself, stopping yourself
A delicate novel about grief, heritage and the role of death in life
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The story of a woman who is perpetually travelling is a philosophical tale for our frantic times
SF stories explore the philosophy of a London-based landscape, art and architecture collective
An investigation into the costs of outsourcing government services
A witty, unsettling collection of stories about transformation
Fiction helps bridge the divide between bankers and the rest of us
‘Who would I most like to sit next to at a dinner party? Someone full of trivia who isn’t looking at their phone’
The gases around us are the starting point for an entertaining scientific journey
Stories about the Bengali middle class are elevated by the author’s empathy for the poor
A personal account of autism and a novel about disfigurement seek to overturn preconceptions
A trip along an ancient road brings together different ideas of Britishness, from ‘The Canterbury Tales’ to 1990s rave culture
A boy with a gift for code-breaking confronts the puzzle of his grandfather’s disappearance
A searching tale of expats and migrants in crisis-hit Spain
Death meets life in a Knausgaardian novel of loss and love
An idiosyncratic, unpredictable fable about blind Indian princess and a tiger
From ‘There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé’
An impressive study of the country’s past sheds much light on the present
As ‘identity politics’ is forced on to the defensive, advocates for women’s rights are finding new ways to make their voices heard
Disturbing truths emerge in a study of the data harvested by search engines
‘Rien ne s’est passé comme prévu’ by François Bazin
A far-reaching history of the postwar years casts an unflattering light on our own time
A child psychologist receives an unexpected visitor in this mesmerising psychological thriller
Clear and understated short stories by the inventor of the Moomins
This powerful novel of Nazi atrocities in Ukraine examines those who realise too late that they are complicit
A memoir of growing up in an insular sect is also a moving portrayal of ambivalent family love
The tale of an octogenarian poet and former advertising executive’s epic stroll through Manhattan
