Strange new things and illuminating olds ones

Would-be author leads us into an increasingly menacing world

Nora Webster: about as perfect as a book can get

‘The Mighty Dead’ might just make you want to set off with Homer

RF Foster’s page-turning charm and humane feeling

Why didn’t Akhil Sharma’s ‘Family Life’ win everything?

So many brilliant women writers to explore, so little time

Haunting fly-on-the-wall accounts of war and its effects