Post-apocalyptic beachcombers, alien invaders and weird jokes — you don’t have to fully understand M John Harrison’s The End of Everything to enjoy it

The End of Everything is a bravura, brain-melting sci-fi in which Britain comes under attack from the astral plane

In M. John Harrison’s most recently published novel, The End of Everything (Serpent’s Tail, 2026), the reader encounters a narrative that is as chaotic and combative as its title sugges…

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

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

Maggie O’Farrell, Yann Martel and Julian Barnes are among the authors publishing new novels this year

Camille Bordas’s new collection is a deadpan and delightful feat. Plus, the best of January’s fiction

Our critics review hundreds of books a year. Here are their favourites from 2025, from fiction and crime to memoir and history

John Tottenham is a British-born, middle-aged poet, novelist, artist, bookseller and semi-professional misanthrope who has lived for many years in Los

Back in print for its 20th anniversary, The Course of the Heart refuses give away all the answers, or hardly any for that matter.

Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator based in London. Her short story collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For is forthcoming from Prototype, and her translation of German aut…

Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories

The author on a brilliant biography of Buster Keaton, coming round to Joseph Conrad, and marathon training with Karl Ove Knausgård

In Moveable Feasts, Chris Newens journeys through Paris peeling back its layers of gastronomic myth

The six great rivers of the historical Punjab all rise in the High Himalayas, then chart their own paths through eastern Pakistan or northeastern India

If you're looking for something new to read this summer, I would highly recommend trying any of these 10 books, all published this year.

The discovery of a holy river sparks celebration and protest in an ambitious, continent-crossing debut novel

YouTube video by Waterstones

From novels and short stories, to biography and history, leading authors recommend their favourite recent books and the ones they can’t wait to dive into

James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads

A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

From a thrilling, seven-part epic to a compelling new novel set off the coast of Naples, our critics review June’s latest fiction

The Booksellers Association and Bookshop.org are combining their respective Book of the Month campaigns for June into a “one-off” partnership to celebrate Independent Bookshop Week 2025.

Gloucester Road Books presents two wonderful writers, Gurnaik Johal and Ariel Saramandi, whose new books masterfully examine the legacy of empire and the snowballing climate crisis in distinct, dynami...

Dengue Boy is set in a dystopian future where much of the world is flooded and the remainder is plagued by disease and despair.

The French author takes aim at marriage, childhood and her illustrious family name in the finale of a landmark autofictional trilogy

I have always wanted to be a mother (just not solely a biological one). The presumption that women want to be mothers, or want to mother in a specific way, ruthlessly overlooks the nuance of matern…