Mia Levitin

Three socially conscious and moral storylines are interwoven with mixed results in Choice by Neel Mukherjee

There is humour and humanity in this recasting of Mark Twain’s flawed classic

This dense read feels a bit like sitting on a hard wood pew in itchy Sunday best

The author on his latest Mona book - the final instalment he promises, once again - remembering the Aids crisis and why he no longer talks to his brother

Cockerell’s unique approach raises questions about the role of the biographer or historian

Retreating from a failed marriage and striking out for pastures new are the themes at the heart of the acclaimed novelist’s new memoir

Biography of George Weidenfeld’s mission to publish ‘the mavericks, the scandalous, the subversive’ is written like a school report

Latest novel from the Booker winner explores family dynamics with wit and empathy

Writer brings to bear a poet’s precision, a novelist’s empathy and an essayist’s concentrated thought

Eileen O’Shaughnessy ran the home and farm, typed and edited his manuscripts, backed him financially and tended to his TB despite her ill-health

Nolan’s follow-up to Acts of Desperation works better as literary fiction than as a whodunnit

The author avoids many pitfalls that plague debut novels, offering fully fleshed-out characters and careful plot progression

Salman Rushdie’s 15th novel, about an eternally youthful femme fatale fighting religious fundamentalism, sticks to the author’s fiction formula

Short stories from the 1940s and 1950s are paired with insightful responses from contemporary writers

Story loosely based on reality is both sensual and sensory, capturing 1890s London with the eye of a historian and a Jamesian knack for metaphor