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The hit graphic novel that says ditch renewables and go nuclear; two books that capture the decline of Britain’s Conservative party; Alan Bennett returns aged 90 with a novella set in a nursing home; how tribalism can connect as well as divide; what Wallis Simpson really did in China; a belated UK issue of a Jon Fosse novella from 2000; the notebooks of the late Johanna Ekström — plus our pick of debut novels and an interview with Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey
Two books, from Anthony Seldon and Tim Shipman, capture the decline of the Conservative party
Johanna Ekström’s notebooks, translated by her friend Sigrid Rausing, offer a moving testament to love, friendship and loss
The novelist talks greyhounds, Joanna Lumley and her typewriter, Monica
The 2024 prize winner talks about setting her novel aboard the orbiting ISS to observe the beauty of our planet — and warn of its fragility
Now aged 90, the playwright returns with a novella set in a nursing home during Covid
Cultural psychologist Michael Morris examines how tribalism can connect as well as divide, in both business and politics
Judges praise ‘beautiful and miraculous’ novel that tells the story of astronauts on the International Space Station
Shanghai-based historian Paul French explores what Simpson got up to in the 1920s during a mysterious rumour-filled year in China
This slim, haunting, mesmeric novel from the Nobel Prize winner is finally published in the UK
A bestselling French comic book argues we should forget renewables — our only option to address global warming lies in splitting the atom
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Gavin Francis’s meditative travelogue takes in history as well as geography, exploring how bridges can also be barriers
