Novel

Procrastinator extraordinaire

There are far worse celebrity writers than Nicola Sturgeon — that doesn’t make her a novelist

There’s a pleasure in every paragraph and a tartness to set off the sweetness

Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull

Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist

Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose

The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel

Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold

We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera

A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism