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From murder mysteries to comic novels, Maggie Shipstead, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Nina Stibbe, Paul Murray and other authors choose unputdownable favourites for your summer break

Guy Gunaratne’s Booker-longlisted 2018 debut, In Our Mad and Furious City, portrayed Londoners from several diaspora communities against the backdrop of a terrorist atrocity. Gunaratne’s new novel, Mister Mister, is narrated by Yahya, a British-Iraqi terror suspect

The winner will receive £1,000, and have their story featured on the Guardian website

The second outing from the Booker-longlisted author traces the formation of a restless, obsessive British jihadist. Review by Georgia Heneage

From childhood in London to radicalist notoriety to global wanderings, this fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious

Booker-longlisted in 2018 for their debut novel, In Our Mad and Furious City, the Londoner talks about the follow-up, the slippery life story of a terror suspect, and<em> </em>the fellowship of Ali Smith during a time of stress

Guy Gunaratne interviewed Margo Jefferson after the winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize was announced, and they discussed her prize-winning book, Constructing a Nervous System.

From Kazuo Ishiguro to Zadie Smith, Granta’s list has been spotlighting future stars since 1983. Four decades on, what does its evolution says about our literary landscape?

From Eleanor Catton to Lorrie Moore, a wealth of literary heavy-hitters are returning with new books in spring 2023. Here, Vogue rounds up the best.

With new work from Richard Ford, Lorrie Moore and Zadie Smith, plus second novels by Caleb Azumah Nelson and Guy Gunaratne, this is shaping up to be a memorable 12 months