Sci-fi/fantasy reads: AI as our saviour, a genetically engineered space crew, and navigating a world designed for giants
New novels from Lucy Lapinska, James Alistair Henry, Ishmael A Soledad and more
Crime fiction: domestic noir at its most beguilingly chilling
New works by Michelle McDonagh, Peter Swanson, Ruth Ware, Nick Harkaway and Sophie Hannah
New crime fiction: Michael Connelly revels in fresh freedom, Brian McGilloway serves up a suffocatingly claustrophobic affair
Nightshade by Michael Connelly; The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah; A Beautiful Way to Die by Eleni Kriacou; The Counting Game by Sinéad Nolan; and Brian McGilloway’s The One You Least Suspect
New crime fiction: Five compelling reads
Murder at Gulls Nest; After the Party; There Came A-Tapping; One True Word; The Inalienable Right
Crime fiction: Quirky killers, an offbeat cop and the grimier side of Paris and the Costa Blanca
Declan Burke reviews Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse, Asia Mackay’s A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage, Uketsu’s Strange Pictures, Sam Blake’s The Killing Sense and Esther García Llovet’s Spanish Beauty
Sci-fi and fantasy round-up: Watch out for a weird time-travelling mother and a half-human, half-mosquito anti-heroine
New novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elly Griffiths, Makana Yamamoto and Michel Neva
The best crime fiction of 2024: Robert Harris, Jane Casey, Joe Thomas, Kellye Garrett, Stuart Neville and many more
Declan Burke, Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff round up their favourite crime novels of the year
Crime fiction: New works by Nick Harkaway, Louise Penny, Scott Phillips, David Safier and Jane Casey
Stunning literary ventriloquism will see George Smiley defer his retirement for some time to come, while Scott Phillips delivers a dark-stained noir punctuated by arson and murder by claw-hammer
New sci-fi novels: Time police, other dimensions, terror orbs, escape into genre and black holes
A look at the latest fantastical fictions by Jodi Taylor, Brandon Sanderson, Kim Ewhan and more
Crime fiction: Graeme McCrae Burnet, Paula Hawkins, Kate Summerscale, Ian Rankin and the debut of the year from IS Berry
Twice Booker Prize longlisted McCrae Burnet’s wickedly funny French-set novel owes as much to Albert Camus as to Georges Simenon; Rankin’s septuagenarian Rebus returns for another round
Crime fiction: The thriller people said couldn’t be done; and one of Robert Harris’s finest
Precipice by Robert Harris; The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre; The Perfect Place by Amanda Cassidy; Sovereign Territory by Andy Bell; and Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
Science-fiction books: Keanu Reeves takes the action-packed philosophical route
Plus, new works from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gary J Martin, Cixin Liu and Joanne Harris
Best new crime: Novels from Oliver Harris, Scarlett Thomas, Lucy Foley, Andrea Mara and Hugo Rifkind
Fictional summer feasts set against cyber warfare and leaks, Greek island tragedy, a Dorset country retreat, Foxrock domestic noir, and the world of guns and Scotland’s shabby rich
From The Terminator to Frankenstein, 12 of the best portrayals of AI from the past two centuries
Artificial intelligence, or a-life, has been entertaining us with its gloomy prognostications ever since Mary Shelley put quill to paper in 1818
Crime fiction: New works from Andrew Hughes, Erin Kelly, Akimitsu Takagi, Sheila Bugler and Jo Spain
Emma, Disappeared; The House of Mirrors; The Noh Mask Murder; Dark Road Home; and The Trial show the various crime subgenres are very much alive and kicking