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Popularity is not a guarantee of quality. Last year’s fiction offered ample proof of that: as Claire Allfree wrote here in November 2022, the big...
We’ve sorted through hundreds of books to find the perfect picks for the fashionistas, culture vultures and even the bah-humbuggers in your life
Never mind the A-list – this year’s best books came from unsung names, indie presses and odd archival depths. Read on for the highlights…
Adam Biles’s Beasts of England was published last month. Described in the Guardian as “Animal Farm for the post-Brexit era”, the novel is set, like the original, in Manor Farm (now a petting zoo) and features Benjamin the donkey, who remembers the original revolution and its aftermath and connects the two eras and the two novels. Now, a few weeks later, comes Julia by Sandra Newman, the story of the non-conformist, free-spirited lover of Winston Smith from Nineteen Eighty-Four. So, two novels a month apart propagated out Orwell. Coincidence? Or are our troubles so bad that he is in vogue...
The best novels of 2023 featuring new books from authors including Rose Tremain, Adam Biles, Stephen King, Paul Lynch, and Zadie Smith.