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Letters: We cannot let real books go the way of vinyl records, writes 15-year-old Jude Brayton. Plus letters from Celia Anderson and Jean Jackson

Charlotte Mendelson’s last book, 2022’s The Exhibitionist, was hailed for its frank and honest study of dysfunctional relationships. It was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and named Novel of the Year by The Times. With such accolades it comes as no surprise that Mendelson should return to themes…

An innocent Texan was caught for more than three decades in a web of lies and injustice.

There’s more Margolyes than Dickens here, but her gift for florid characters is on fine display and suits the Victorian master perfectly

Olivia Petter’s debut novel about nonconsensual sex with a pop star is stuck in an era gone by, says Maddy Mussen

Extremophile by Ian Green; Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan; Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova; The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey; Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts

Actor Lydia Leonard and novelist Anne Enright are among the narrators of the Wolf Hall author’s engaging essays on Madonna, Jane Austen and Princess Diana

Eline Arbo’s production of The Years at London’s Almeida Theatre is a rare triumph. First adapted into Dutch and premiered in Amsterdam in 2022, the play breathes theatrical life into the Nobel-winning writer Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece of the same name, delineating a composite portrait of a woman and a culture…

This is a beautifully observed portrait of five young men growing up on the edge of Dublin’s underworld