Recording daily encounters with nature increases our connection to it. But could a writer more interested in owl pellets than AI be up to the task of creating an app to up the ante?
Megan Nolan’s follow-up to ‘Acts of Desperation’ is full of brilliantly drawn characters and subtle psychological insights
An artful novel teeming with ideas about politics, time and trauma
This exploration of the meat industry and more gives plenty to chew over for those considering a vegan lifestyle
Big concepts, from neuroscience to rewilding, entice but fail to compel in the Patrick Melrose author’s 10th novel
Novelist Melissa Harrison guides us on ambles through Suffolk in this elegantly produced series
A tale of criminal derring-do casts a thief of raptor eggs in an overly heroic light
The poet’s debut novel tells the story of a gay immigrant boy in rich sensory language
The land that once linked Britain to Europe is fertile ground for delving into past lives and current concerns
An enigmatic author, possibly the best you’ve never heard of, comes up with his first and possibly last novels
A girl’s imagination adds colour to rural life in 1930s England in this evocative tale
This take on working-class teenage life is insightful, if confused
A brilliantly imagined account of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok’s secret affair
A dying man and his Down syndrome son embark on a dreamlike road-trip in a novel that is both strange and profound
A murder mystery that brilliantly evokes the texture of life in medieval England
A journey from Idaho isolation is powerfully described in this memoir of learning
An essay collection that distils a lifetime’s worth of thinking about books and writing
Explicit content is widely accessed in the office, with damaging effect
A menagerie of extraordinary animals reveal themselves in an illuminating collection of essays
Steeped in sex and death, these short stories eschew social convention for something more innate
A trip along an ancient road brings together different ideas of Britishness, from ‘The Canterbury Tales’ to 1990s rave culture
The follow-up to ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ is an extraordinary exercise in imaginative empathy
The best experimental writing often comes in small packages, as this collection shows
An acclaimed young novelist offers a lyrical examination of the creative process
A recluse shares her story in a novel that blends folklore, fairytale and US history
