A shatteringly beautiful novel on the Booker shortlist and a new Colm Toibin imagines the family life of Thomas Mann.
Read moreA Passage North
Klara and the Sun
An ineffably beautiful new novel from Kazuo Ishiguro
Read moreMayflies
Mayflies is a kind-of diptych of a novel with two very elegantly, equally weighted, halves.
Read moreWinter Reading
What we’re reading this July
Read moreInland
I’ve just started Inland by Tea Obreht and so far it is worthy of the swag of rapturous reviews it has received. It has one of those first sentences that immediately drops you into a time and place and compels you to keep reading: ‘When those men rode down to the fording place last night,
Read more