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Finding your way without the social template of romantic love is a tough challenge, but writers from Deborah Levy to Hanya Yanagihara offer clues to how it can be done

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

Let’s try something new this summer.

Four years after my husband’s death, the question of where to locate my grief still isn’t easy to answer, says the writer Kat Lister

DEBORAH Levy majors in that mood indigo. You ain’t been blue as Elsa M Anderson, the central character of her new novel. Elsa wakes up one morning…

A beautiful grifter, a defiant prodigy and a political prisoner star in this month’s best books, which our critics describe variously as "utterly engaging", "beguiling" and "profound".

The opening sentence of Deborah Levy’s new novel August Blue contains the germ of the whole: “I first saw her in a flea market in Athens buying two mechanical dancing horses.” Its simplicity and specificity are classic Levy – and yet it’s loaded with mystery. Who is this woman? Why…

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman and The Story Of The Forest by Linda Grant.

A guide to the new releases over the coronation weekend

A concert pianist is shadowed across Europe by her doppelganger in this virtuosic novel of identity and breakdown

A doppelganger leads the way to suppressed secrets in the author’s wistful, fabular new novel