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A smash-your-heart-to-smithereens debut from Alice Winn as she tells the story of two schoolboy soldiers, who attempt to survive the slaughter of the trenches and keep their secret love alive.

With Christmas fast-approaching, its time to draw up your reading list. Wondering where to start? Our critics have picked out their novels of the year across a range of genres for you to enjoy.

Julie Owen Moylan’s 73 Dove Street (Michael Joseph £16.99) evokes the nicotine-stained, exhausted squalor of late-1950s London. It begins with a nervous young w

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Trackers by Charles Frazier and Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead.

Theres much fun to be had in this delicious debut by Hay, as a bunch of brave but undervalued servants plan a bold burglary.