In 2024, you have continued to buy an extraordinary number of copies of Frédéric Gros’s A Philosophy of Walking (first published a full decade ago) and, of ...

From the publisher: A brilliant reinvention of the detective novel, set in Renaissance Florence and packed with art, scandal, murder and scheming – from the author of the international bestseller HHhH ...

From the publisher: A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman RepublicIn his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger ...

My Book of the Year goes to Richard Powers’s Playground. I am still reeling from this novel. Give yourself over to it completely – the reward is immense.

Russian short fiction, the lives of gay men before decriminalisation, falling for wild things, a Marx for the 21st century and my desert island book, The Letters ...

It’s a funny thing to look back over the year, to look at everything you have read and spot unifying themes and flavours – connections you didn’t consciously ...

A slow year for reading new books as I decided to revisit ones I’ve loved over the years like Possession by A.S. Byatt, but my favourite book of 2024 ...

There’s been so much lively poetry this year that it’s been hard to choose my favourites. To begin with, two massive yellow bricks - J.H. Prynne’s late work in ...

My Book of the Year has to be Kaliane Bradley’s debut The Ministry of Time. It’s the kind of book that ruins reading for you for months afterwards, because you ...