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5 days ago

Love Groundhog Day and Russian Doll? These are the novels for you

High-concept fiction is having a moment. Funny, inventive and crackling with big ideas, these ambitious stories will have you instantly hooked

Florence Knapp’s first novel The Names, publishing this m…

7 days ago

Funny, shocking and thought-provoking: John Lithgow's towering performance brings the big unfriendly giant who was Roald Dahl back to life in the West End

Anyone familiar with Roald Dahl 's beloved children's story The BFG will know that not all giants are Big and Friendly. Not least this enormously tall, hugely imaginative, massively successful giant …

3 months ago

Dealing with the Dead by Alain Mabanckou review – supernatural satire

Funny, spooky and surreal, this shapeshifting novel from the Francophone author explores Congolese politics

Best known to English-language readers for his novels African Psycho, Broken Glass and Black…

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