Tom Gatti

Tom Gatti is executive editor, culture, books, ideas and print of the New Statesman.

The Death of England trilogy captures a nation adrift

The strengths of these plays – staged on a St George’s Cross – is that they are largely led by character, not politics.

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By Michael Prodger, Tom Gatti and Zuzanna Lachendro

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Also featuring Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson and England: Seven Myths that Changed a Country by Tom Baldwin and Marc…

By Pippa Bailey, Michael Prodger, Anoosh Chakelian and Tom Gatti

Also featuring Spent Light by Lara Pawson and Moral AI And How We Get There.

By Barney Horner, Will Dunn, Michael Prodger and Tom Gatti

For all its themes of cronyism and catastrophe, the Smile’s Wall of Eyes suggests that Yorke has found serenity…

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Also featuring Deterring Armageddon by Peter Apps and Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills.

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey, Tom Gatti and Megan Kenyon

The award for “mould-breaking” fiction goes to a millennia-spanning epic about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne.

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The Goldsmiths-shortlisted author on aliens, revolutionary France and our era of misinformation.

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Lazy prose, stale humour, zero imagination: his bestselling children’s books belong to the Boaty McBoatface school of fiction.

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Also featuring Kenneth W Harl’s history of nomadic tribes and Redstone Press’s Seeing Things.

By Barney Horner, Pippa Bailey, Michael Prodger and Tom Gatti