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Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

Some of the most notable, enthralling, talked-about reads, released and forthcoming.

The author writes about “the body in the world.” In her new book “August Blue,” she explores the split self via the story of a woman confronted with her double.

At the heart of her new novel August Blue is the question: where does one self begin and another end?

August Blue is a short book that meanders, but Levy encourages the reader to savor the slowness.

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".

This grande dame of literature advances the question, how do you escape from the presence of absence?

In this week’s newsletter: Ask anyone if they’ve seen Amazon’s fake trial mockumentary where everyone is acting except for one poor juror, and you’ll unfairly be met with blank stares

A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary news

Deborah Levy’s new novel, set in our pandemic-era present, contains the heat and desire of a European summer and the upward struggle of a soul. Jane Gleeson-White says she ‘read it like a thriller’.