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A boy tormented by ecological catastrophe taps into the calmness of his late mother via AI in the new novel from the author of The Overstory
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A gallop through the mind and art of a man whose novels and personal journey crackled with drama
Prix Goncourt laureate Éric Vuillard channels today’s unrest into a tale of 16th-century uprising
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A poetic, erudite exploration of history, myth and hunting as the first ‘art for art’s sake’
French provocateur Frédéric Beigbeder sends his fictional alter-ego out to cheat death
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Jonathan Bate’s crisp biography sheds light on the poet’s inspiration — and long decline
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The former wild child of French literature is back with another contrarian anti-hero
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A rising star of French fiction throws slurry over the conventions of the pastoral novel
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Echoes of paternal bad luck enrich this engrossing tour of Ireland’s literary heritage
Michelangelo spends an enchanted summer at the Ottoman court in this sensuous and seductive counterfactual novel
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