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Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, Coe’s multilayered study of how things quickly fell apart is a whodunnit with a villain hiding in plain sight

This tricksy caper ranges from 1980s Cambridge to the rise and fall of Liz Truss with entertaining results

Answer fiendish literary questions from Bernardine Evaristo, Nina Stibbe, Jonathan Coe and more. Plus, spot the 10 books hidden on our festive ice rink

Talking Europe hosts Austrian author Robert Menasse, the winner of the 2023 European Union book prize. The award was set up in 2007 to foster a European spirit and promote understanding of the EU from a cultural perspective. The prize has previously been bestowed on such towering figures as Jonathan…

The acclaimed author on writing his most personal novel to date, finding inspiration on Twitter, and why he was horrified by Granta’s list of the best young British writers

What drew Howardena Pindell to painting circles? Is the album Sleaford Mods pressed just 50 copies of any good? And which TV spoof sent Kiell Smith-Bynoe viral? Writers, musicians, artists and actors recall their earliest works – warts and all

A chain of connections that starts and finishes with the random-order eight-part crime thriller

Authors and Observer critics choose the books they will be giving as gifts this year – and the one they’d like to find in their own stocking

IS Jonathan Coe the most prescient novelist working on these islands today? In his new novel, a grandson introduces his girlfriend to his…