Fiction
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The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy – about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations – into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks – and her terror of being judged
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A midlife couple take a hike through the Lake District in this witty and likable crowd-pleaser
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Capturing ‘an enormous breadth of the human experience’, the six shortlisted novels compete for a £30,000 prize to be awarded in June
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From Sri Lanka to New South Wales and Shanghai, these wide-ranging stories are united by a compelling focus on women’s experience
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Other lives: Dutch journalist, author and futurologist who was an advocated for a post-capitalist society
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Chris Columbus will direct film adaptation of Pointless presenter’s bestselling mystery book about a group of septuagenarian sleuths
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A publisher and his authors debate the balance of power between reader and writer in a novel comprising three long, loosely linked tales
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A promising first novel takes a jazzy, improvised journey with a young woman who has a sudden loss of hearing
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An impressive coming of age novel set on a Welsh island; a physicist’s lifelong obsession with gravity; and the harrowing story of a Holocaust survivor
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The novelist and critic on finding inspiration in her Twitter timeline, why she found the middle-aged man in her new book easier to write than his daughter, and how she learned her craft through poetry
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The thriller writer Gareth Rubin focuses on Professor Moriarty, the great detective’s nemesis, in a new adventure approved by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s family
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The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie set
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Book of the dayThe Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud review – a bad man in TrinidadThe troubling allure of a real-life gangster is vividly captured in tales from the women who fell for him
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Tom Hardy, Cynthia Erivo and Andrew Scott conjure menace and melodrama in this 75th-anniversary remake of Orwell’s classic