Ten years of Swimming Home
A decade on, the author returns to her Booker Prize-nominated novel, and finds conflict and mortal danger among the waves.
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Discover the best contemporary literature with the New Statesman’s expert reviews. From debut novels to short stories and literary veterans, get inspired here.
The best new books of 2022 so far
The New Statesman’s selection of good reads for this spring.
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Ali Smith, our thoroughly modern modernist
In her new novel Companion Piece, Smith turns the legacy of Joyce and Woolf into vital fiction for the 21st…
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The New Statesman’s best books of 2021
The year's essential reading in 20 titles.
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Our favourite children’s books
From The Jungle Book to Z for Zachariah, New Statesman writers remember the children's books that shaped us
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John le Carré’s aimless final novel
Silverview is a disappointing coda to his Cold War masterpieces.
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In her new novel, Sally Rooney looks her critics in the eye
Beautiful World, Where Are You despairs at the shallowness of fiction – and then embraces it.
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Nadine Dorries’ book The Four Streets is a bad novel, riddled with Shamrockese
After her remarkable flights from fact in her statements on abortion, it's disappointing to find that Dorries is just not…
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