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Meg Mason’s novel about a sad, divorcing festival worker asks: can books save your life?

Meg Mason’s novel about a sad, divorcing festival worker asks: can books save your life?

International hit Sorrow and Bliss is a tough act to follow. Sophie, Standing There, a book-loving novel about loss, is less funny – but has its...

03.08.2026 10

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Amber Gwynne

Ellena Savage’s snappy novel exposes a ruined utopia – but you might need a humanities degree to read it

The Ruiners is an unsettling literary eco-thriller set on a Greek island, which could be a bohemian utopia – if it wasn’t the site of illegal dumping.

30.04.2026 30

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Amber Gwynne

A tech billionaire and troubled girls: Madeline Cash’s ‘unhinged’ debut is Kafka meets Sedaris

29-year-old Madeline Cash’s debut novel was lauded by Lena Dunham – and it’s inspired by The Corrections and hard-boiled detective fiction.

07.04.2026 30

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Amber Gwynne

‘We’re all triers’: Toni Jordan meditates on a childhood with greyhounds and gamblers

Toni Jordan’s novel Tenderfoot, a bracing, beautiful meditation on childhood, shares crossovers with her own life.

25.08.2025 20

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Amber Gwynne