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![Graham Swift: A coastguard meets a comedian](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Graham Swift: A coastguard meets a comedian
The many facets of England meet in the pages of Graham Swift’s new book, writes Stephen Jewell.
![Martine Bailey: Taste of murder](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Martine Bailey: Taste of murder
Martine Bailey puts a dark twist on food in her ‘culinary gothic’ novel that features real, historic family recipes, writes Stephen Jewell.
![Book review: No Book But The World](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: No Book But The World
Fred Robbins is an enigma, even to the person closest to him in the world, his sister Ava.
![Book review: Upstairs at the Party](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: Upstairs at the Party
Reconsidering moments that changed everything is an old chestnut in fiction, but Linda Grant manages it with verve in this excellent novel.
![Tina Shaw: Ripples in a pond](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Tina Shaw: Ripples in a pond
Tina Shaw talks to Rebecca Barry Hill about her connection to provincial New Zealand and why she is drawn to dark crime.
![Book review: All The Light We Cannot See](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: All The Light We Cannot See
It’s full of dazzling prose, it’s ingeniously put together, it’s so long it’s a drag to lug around.
![Book review: Tree Palace](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: Tree Palace
In his second novel, Craig Sherborne presents a family of transients, “last of their kind”, who drift along, squatting in abandoned properties dotted across Victoria’s wheat belt.
![Book review: Tenderness stories](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: Tenderness stories
Publishers are wary of short stories. They don’t sell as easily or pleasingly as novels.
![Book review: The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden
It starts in the 1970s. An illiterate girl from a Soweto slum is crammed into a truck with a load of potatoes.
![Book review: The SilkWorm](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: The SilkWorm
It was three months after the publication of Robert Galbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling, that J.K. Rowling was exposed as the true author of "his" crime debut, lauded by readers and critics alike.
![Book review: Mr Mercedes](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: Mr Mercedes
Most of what you need to know about Stephen King you could learn from his sex scenes.
![Ned Beauman: When wild foxes come into town](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Ned Beauman: When wild foxes come into town
Ned Beauman’s new novel, Glow, is being touted as an international conspiracy thriller for a new generation, writes Stephen Jewell.
![Book review: Orfeo](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: Orfeo
This latest novel by the prolific Richard Powers may be summarised very briefly.
![Book review: Every Single Minute](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: Every Single Minute
Una has lung cancer, and just days to live. "I have friends and family ... I have money.
![Murderer most foul](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Murderer most foul
Jayne Anne Phillips was first told about Harry Powers when she was a child.
![Small town, caring hearts](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Small town, caring hearts
Nicky Pellegrino is delighted by all the quirky characters in this Kiwi novel.
![Book review: Bark](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book review: Bark
In her second short story collection, her first in 15 years, Lorrie Moore peels back life’s outer layer and reveals what lies within.