One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This argues that the war’s catastrophic loss of life has been met with a cowardly and self-serving response

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This argues that the war’s catastrophic loss of life has been met with a cowardly and self-serving response

Chris Power: A complex and powerfully emotive collection that tackles psychological derangement with elegance and grace

In On Difficulty (and Poetry), Lavinia Greenlaw examines her art in pithy and profound ways, drawing on some of its greatest – as well as unsung – practitioners

Struggling with Alzheimer’s, the central character sets out on his final journey to a euthanasia clinic

His 1988 memoir of homelessness and alcoholism, The Grass Arena, was lauded one minute and pulped the next. Nearly 40 years on, Healy, now 83, is setting the record straight

This dreamlike work of autofiction completes the Finnish author’s trilogy and explores her sexual coming of age in repressive 1970s Helsinki

In Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch it isn’t only the author but his characters who can change history. Iris and Geoff...

In Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch it isn’t only the author but his characters who can change history. Iris and Geoff...

A fascinating, generations-spanning history of the race to harness nuclear power into a weapon, from theoretical physics to the Trinity Test and first ‘Super Bomb’

In Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch it isn’t only the author but his characters who can change history. Iris and Geoff...

Homer’s wandering hero has haunted our imaginations for centuries. Can Christopher Nolan remake Odysseus for an age of culture wars and godlessness?

From novels by James Baldwin and Han Kang to a guide to quantum physics – a former Booker prize judge recommends immersive one-sitting wonders

As Simon Reynolds recalls the rise of genres like shoegaze and grunge, he captures ‘the rush of being inside the ride’

From novels by James Baldwin and Han Kang to a guide to quantum physics – a former Booker prize judge recommends immersive one-sitting wonders

Poets from Gaza and the West Bank paint a bleak picture of the precarious nature of life amid the ruined landscapes of their homeland

At 80, SF author M John Harrison is producing some of his best work. He talks about finding his voice, alien intelligence and the advice from Iain Banks that still spurs him on

The French author eulogises every goal Cantona scored for Man Utd during his headline-grabbing five years with the club

Having embarked on an Odyssey of her own, Wilson considers the perils and prejudices of translating the classics

One of Ireland’s most undervalued authors once again proves his greatness in this Joycean journey through an unfamiliar Dublin

This history of Britain’s role in the latter half of the second world war debunks myths with quotable aplomb

This history of Britain’s role in the latter half of the second world war debunks myths with quotable aplomb

An acutely observed tale of dysfunctional romance from one of this year’s Observer debut novelists

An acutely observed tale of dysfunctional romance from one of this year’s Observer debut novelists

The German author’s International Booker-shortlisted novel puts a tricksy spin on the life of film-maker GW Pabst

One of the most influential books of the 1990s, this novella about a young heroin addict still thrills today

One of the most influential books of the 1990s, this novella about a young heroin addict still thrills today