Queenie’s ticking biological clock drives her chaotic misadventures in this sage and funny follow-up ...

Australia has only half the number of bookstores it had a decade ago. But as the industry calls for more public support, some optimistic booksellers are bucking the trend ...

Williams, Patrick Freyne and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments ...

Robin Farquharson was a prize-winning game theorist, anti-apartheid activist and countercultural chaos merchant ...

JD Vance’s Christian vision is thoughtful – but impossible to square with the political company he keeps ...

Two gay Afghan men find each other in Istanbul, in a much-hyped debut that fails to sustain the killer energy of its opening act ...

I decided to combine my need to top the leader table with my daily step count – which is how I found myself walking 10 miles a day while reading out sentences in Japanese, German, Spanish and French ...

A parish priest cares for the mentally afflicted in an absorbing tale that combines antic comedy with serious moral themes ...

A veteran techno DJ embarks on a campaign of civil disobedience in this passionate and at times hilarious tale of underground resistance ...

Writing about home life doesn’t have to be humdrum argues the author of Natural Disaster – just look at world-spanning ambitious works such as Ducks, Newburyport and All Fours ...

As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco Bay ...

The author on Marxist revelations, returning to Don DeLillo and reading all of Elizabeth Taylor My earliest reading memory Beatrix Potter when I was having my tonsils out. No point saying how much I ...