CHRISTMAS IN AUSTIN by Benjamin Markovits (Faber £16.99, 432 pp) CHRISTMAS IN AUSTIN by Benjamin Markovits (Faber £16.99, 432 pp) If you haven’t read the first in this rangy, yet addictively immersive, American family saga, all you need know is that Paul Essinger, retired from his undistinguished tennis career, is having a slow-motion breakdown. Now, … Read more
From a corker by Marian Keyes to Eimear McBride’s Strange Hotel and a ‘quietly brilliant’ new novel from Philip Hensher, this week’s best new fiction By Amber Pearson For Event Magazine and Max Davidson and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 25 January 2020 | Updated: 16:08 GMT, 26 January 2020 Grown Ups … Read more
CRIME FICTION By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 09:35 GMT, 27 December 2019 | Updated: 09:35 GMT, 27 December 2019 JUST WATCH ME by Jeff Lindsay (Orion £20, 368 pp) JUST WATCH ME by Jeff Lindsay (Orion £20, 368 pp) From the creator of vigilante serial killer Dexter — who tracked down murderers … Read more
YOUNG FICTION By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 GMT, 2 January 2020 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 2 January 2020 THE KID WHO CAME FROM SPACE by Ross Welford (HarperCollins £6.99) THE KID WHO CAME FROM SPACE by Ross Welford (HarperCollins £6.99) When 12-year-old Tammy goes missing on Christmas Eve, her twin brother … Read more
From Hannah Rothschild’s delightful House Of Trelawney to the latest from A D Miller and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ debut novel, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Jeffrey Burke Published: 22:01 GMT, 1 February 2020 | Updated: 17:44 GMT, 4 February 2020 House Of Trelawney Hannah Rothschild … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 11:55 GMT, 10 January 2020 YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) In Los Angeles in the early 1990s, racial tensions — already … Read more
From Jenny Offill’s sublime Weather to a powerful new novel from Jacqueline Woodson and Emma Jane Unsworth’s Adults, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Catherine Taylor and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 8 February 2020 | Updated: 11:24 GMT, 9 February 2020 Weather Jenny Offill … Read more
Before graduating from the UEA’s prestigious creative writing programme, Deepa Anappara worked as a journalist in India
POPULAR FICTION By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 16:33 GMT, 17 January 2020 MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) Back in 1970s Sheffield, teenage pop obsessives Dan and Alison were madly in love. But then Alison … Read more
From Anne Enright’s potent Actress to the skilful latest by Petina Gappah and an impressive debut from Rosanna Amaka, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 15 February 2020 Actress Anne Enright … Read more