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A beautiful grifter, a defiant prodigy and a political prisoner star in this month’s best books, which our critics describe variously as "utterly engaging", "beguiling" and "profound".

The opening sentence of Deborah Levy’s new novel August Blue contains the germ of the whole: “I first saw her in a flea market in Athens buying two mechanical dancing horses.” Its simplicity and specificity are classic Levy – and yet it’s loaded with mystery. Who is this woman? Why…

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman and The Story Of The Forest by Linda Grant.

A guide to the new releases over the coronation weekend

A concert pianist is shadowed across Europe by her doppelganger in this virtuosic novel of identity and breakdown

A doppelganger leads the way to suppressed secrets in the author’s wistful, fabular new novel

The long read: From her shimmering novels to her ‘living autobiographies’, Deborah Levy’s work inspires a devotion few literary authors ever achieve

Sheep are descended from a ‘mouflon’. Yes (yes!)

It is timely that the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature went to French writer Annie Ernaux.

Get ready to race through some thrilling books in 2023, with heavily anticipated memoirs and new releases from big-name novelists. Jessie Thompson picks some of the most exciting upcoming reads

Deborah Levy and Juno Dawson are among the writers and artists who have stayed at the film-maker’s cottage in Dungeness. On a rare tour of the property, Laura Barton hears how the project came about