Armstrong has crafted a style that is urgently contemporary and unmistakably her own

One part child adventure novel, one part wry family history and another part social commentary

Reviews of works by Kimberly Campanello, John Travers and Nettie Jones

Exploration of male friendship and our responsibilities towards our children feels a little old fashioned

A richly wise book about how to live a creative life in a world full of distractions and false goals

Meticulously detailed profile of OpenAI and its controversial leader Sam Altman may help you pick a side in the debate between ‘doomers’ and ‘boomers’

Subtitled 1,000 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland’s Towns and Cities, Wood’s work is a kind of illumination, and an exercise in mindfulness

Taking its title from a courtroom lament by Anna Nicole Smith, this read is a study of how fame transforms a woman into an image

This comedy of manners meets murder mystery is a promising and enjoyable debut, despite its sometimes overstretched similes

Podcast duo explore society’s inability to reckon with the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade

Keating uses deadpan expressionism to tell startling tales about what happens to our feelings when they collide with the social world

From Plato to Dylan, Augustine Sedgewick outlines how fatherhood has constantly been redefined by political, economic and religious changes

A brilliant debut from debut from Cass Biehn, plus new work from Brian Selznick, Abdi Nazemian, Josh Silver and Sophie Gonzales

Tao Leigh Goffe makes the case for 1492 being the ‘ground zero’ of both colonial conquest and today’s climate emergency

The Boys luxuriates in a particular kind of north London nostalgia, decisively slotting into the traditions and tropes of a distinctly British literature

The author intersperses an account of the evolution of gay rights in the US with the story of his own early love affair

Clark’s third novel is concerned with the unseen powers that buffet and shape human lives

Inspiring account of IWU, edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan, has left this reviewer turbocharged for further change

Paul Rainey’s follow-up to Why Don’t You Love Me?, 1653 book The Compleat Angler revisited, queer love, teen angst and more

Rebecca S Miller’s account of the Irish showband era is fluent, authoritative and free of either nostalgia or embarrassment