Novels with multiple narrators play to the medium’s strengths, while Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s latest is an immersive pleasure
Tim Lankester provides a ringside seat to the policy debacle that led to recession and manufacturing collapse in 1980s Britain
Shifting the focus away from the Führer et al, Richard J Evans profiles lower-ranking Nazis who enabled the Holocaust
The BBC newsreader pays tribute to the grandparents who witnessed the turbulent birth of an independent India
Anupreeta Das investigates the power of Microsoft co-founder to shape our world — and asks: is it effective and accountable?
David Chaffetz makes a convincing case for why no other animal has had such a profound impact on human history
The Damned United author’s compelling fictionalisation of the plane crash that killed eight players succeeds as an elegy for society’s lost innocence
Susanna Crossman recounts the pain, joy and trauma of communal life
Rebecca Godfrey’s final book, completed by Leslie Jamison, reimagines the wild, wealthy, bohemian life of the heiress and art collector
After years at London’s Old Bailey, Wendy Joseph shines a light on the problems facing England’s courts and prisons
Adèle Rosenfeld’s striking debut novel explores what it is like to be partially hearing, stuck in limbo between sound and silence
The science and art of risk, understanding young people, and the unrecognised workforces powering AI
The latest climate writing offers important messages on ways to wean the world off fossil fuels and protect its wildernesses
An absorbing read and reminder of the young people who don’t make the grade
The political forecaster’s long-awaited second book aims to demystify the habits of successful gamblers — whether they are poker players, investors or astronauts
Book historian Sara J Charles takes a fascinating look at manuscript making in the Middle Ages
Donald Rayfield chronicles how the enclave annexed by Putin in 2014 has suffered centuries of invasion and ethnic cleansing
Eva Baltasar’s third novel in her triptych is an often uncomfortable story of a gay woman’s rejection of the city in her quest to be a mother
Cassandra and Clytemnestra take centre stage in a gutsy follow-up to ‘The Silence of the Girls’ and ‘The Women of Troy’
A couple’s hunt for an apartment in an unnamed foreign city forms the backdrop for elegant observations on life in Ayşegül Savaş’s immaculately observed novel
A clutch of books on British politics aims to diagnose the policy mistakes and leadership failures of recent years
When authors pay tribute to booksellers, it’s not only a virtuous circle — it’s a double dose of joy for readers too
Jenni Fagan’s searing autobiography recounts her ordeal of being shunted from place to place
The influential but often overlooked writer celebrated nature from his Californian coastal outpost — and warned of the climate crisis decades before others
The golden rule is to read as few contemporary books as possible