Books

Romanticism rising from the rubble

Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death

There is better crime fiction being written

Journalist Jason Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents

A lineup of new books tackle the thorny China problem

A brilliant new work walks the thorny path of motherhood

Yukio Mishima concealed his poignant political commentary in a run-of-the-mill science fiction novel

Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain

Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time

The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers