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Nearly a century after debuting in Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf, the character Harry Haller has reemerged, still on the prowl, as a famous Norwegian photographer in London. Well, not exactly. To be sure, Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s...

The beginning of the books calendar is usually dominated by debuts, but January 2026 sees releases from some of the year’s biggest authors. Known for his surreally bittersweet short stories, George Saunders has written only one novel so far –...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE...

The jury is still out on the merits of Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, which arrives in cinemas next month, but there is no arguing with the quality of the source material. Maggie O’Farrell’s lyrical and immersive novel, which won the...

In the five decades between 1910 and 1960, more than half a million people in England and Wales became Catholics. Among them were a clutch of literary stars: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and Graham Greene. But there was...

Fae kings. Talking dragons. Elvish laws. The many different fantasy worlds you find on bookshelves are becoming unified by a secondary genre: romance. The meld of romance and fantasy has been so successful that it’s led to the opening...

Anna Kovatcheva’s debut novel, She Made Herself a Monster, follows a con artist vampire hunter whose fake rituals serve a real emotional purpose for the villagers she fools. We asked the author, who was born in Bulgaria, about the...

Inspired by and drawing on three British novels (HG Wells’s The Time Machine, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Henry Green’s Concluding), Updike’s debut imagines a near future where the residents of a care home stage a revolt in which...

1.BERNARDINE EVARISTO Who is considered to be the world’s first male or female author?Reveal2.Approximately how many books are published in the UK annually, including self-publishing?Reveal3.Where do these lines of text originate: “we are untamed / a wilderness of women...