Review: The Dawn Of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

A big history of people that demolishes the myth of progress.

Review: The Story Of A New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)

This second instalment of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet deepens and complicates the themes of the first.

Review: Companion Piece by Ali Smith

A fittingly grim and anxious search for meaning in our anxious and grim times.

Review: Take Care by Eunice Andrada

Poetry that investigates ‘taking’ in all its forms.

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

Review: Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam

A gleefully silly horror-comedy of the end of the world.

Review: Bodies Of Light by Jennifer Down

A novel of surviving extraordinary trials.

Review: Tilt by Kate Lilley

Poems that are all about the hidden things.

Review: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

A contained and seething study of madness and familial obligation.

Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr

A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.