If Cecil Rhodes was your specialist subject on Mastermind, William Kelleher Storey’s biography would supply the answer to every conceivable question

Reviews of Harbour Doubts; When It Rained for a Million Years; Bunting’s Honey; and à la belle étoile

Reviews of new works by Kathryn Hurlock, Keith Davey and Gabriel Flynn

Memoir, cultural criticism and feminist theory are threaded together in this serious but ultimately tame narrative

The Minister for Finance on Nature Capital: The Value of the World Around Us by Partha Dasgupta and Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth by Timothée Parrique, translated by Claire Benoit

Novel envisages a society where chronic pain is the norm

Poetic romance that rings out as reminiscences beside a fire

This novel’s achievement lies in making the sweep of history profoundly personal

Works by Lisa Ridzén, Andrea Tompa, Teresa Präauer, Egon Hostovský and Henrik Pontoppidan

This novel about a shrimp farmer can only add to Wood’s reputation as one of Britain’s most engaging contemporary novelists

New novels from Lucy Lapinska, James Alistair Henry, Ishmael A Soledad and more

Influences and life moments behind the musicians from the ‘70s to ‘90s are revealed

Books by Jimi Famuerewa, Shahnaz Ahsan, Chris Newens, Slutty Cheff, and Laurie Woolever

The still-existing pagan spirituality of Ireland seen through the eyes of a genius mystic polymath more than 70 years ago makes for an enchanting read

If the great essayist had wanted this published she probably would have done it herself

Dandyish culture stemmed from Britain, with the writer proposing Beau Brummell as the first modern dandy

Ex-NYT correspondent argues passionately for the Palestinian cause and excoriates US authorities over blind support for Israel

Books by Sarah Maria Griffin, Madeleine Thein, and Alys Fowler

Though well-intentioned, the author’s preoccupation with avoiding backlash makes this a blandly balanced and faux-humble read

American Dirt author makes a triumphant return with her fourth novel, which explores the lives of three generations of Puerto Ricans