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Joe Gaminara’s narration pumps up the lyricism of Porter’s scuzzy odyssey of drugs, drink, youth violence and doomed romance

Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi; Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo; Bark, Archive, Splinter by Jay Gao; Polkadot Wounds by Anthony Vahni Capildeo; Goodlord by Ella Frears; Skeletons by Deborah Landau

My seminar picks for 2024 (and every year since 2005).

His new politics book aimed at 6 - 9 year old is out today

This writer’s tantalising second novel is packed with marvellous characters, whose unfurling stories examine generational secrets

Women’s Football in Africa, the first in-depth book on the subject, traces the history of women’s soccer from initially being banned through to today’s growing numbers of fans and broadcasting potential. It’s a story of triumph despite enormous barriers – among them sexism, abuse, homophobia and religion. We asked its…

Here artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes

She was an MP and author with a formidable reputation, fighting for the rights of women and refugees, and opposing the appeasement of Hitler. Why isn’t she better known today?

This profound and riddling novel follows a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her mother