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A comic story of Britain

This history of comedy contains much moralising – but the best creations transcend the monstrousness of their characters.

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The author’s first period piece, The Fraud, is curiously absent of her usual strengths. Was her heart really in it?

By Lola Seaton

The author on the hedonism of Britpop and the long shadow of his brother’s suicide.

By Kate Mossman

The Canadian rapper’s boastful new book is merely a marketing tool for his music.

By Isabella Oliver

In the recycled wisdom of his new book The Handover, the supremacy of the state is unquestioned and its inequities…

By Oliver Eagleton

Aided by an online fanbase, the author has sold over 20 million novels. What makes these formulaic books so marketable?

By Amelia Tait

Also featuring Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox and Chaos Kings by Scott Patterson.

By Will Dunn, Michael Prodger, Ellen Peirson-Hagger and Barney Horner

This list offers the most incisive books on the past and present of Russia and its president.

By New Statesman