Book of the Month

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016, His Bloody Project reveals the provisional nature of truth through a fictional 19th-century triple murder in a remote Scottish crofting community

Muriel Spark was a writer of astonishing productivity, writing 22 titles which were varied in subject matter. So which one should you read first?

Max Porter explains the process behind the publication of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, and why it was essential that it reached new readers
 

Doris Lessing’s caustic satire, The Good Terrorist still reads as a bracing antidote to political righteousnes. Here, John Mullen discussed the novel’s impact.

In this archive video, the author of Beyond Black explains how writing the book laid the groundwork for her Tudor novels – and how she might have ended up working as a professional psychic

In this guest post, singer-songwriter Dua Lipa explains why Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life does exactly what great literature is supposed to do