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The darker side of the Enlightenment; the ‘cancelling’ of Charlie Chaplin; a biography of Milton Friedman; a book to make you love maths; the faking of Andy Warhol; an AI parable with a jungle setting; the ‘Purpose of the Universe’, no less; a reissue of a cult 1930s French novel
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A well-crafted first novel from the writer of a memoir and short stories features siblings with very different paths in life
Long banned and now newly translated, the Soviet writer’s picaresque novel takes aim at the brutality of collectivisation
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Hiroko Oyamada’s short, powerful debut novel poses vital questions about life and the futility of corporate jobs
Memoirs of the socialites and swells of an earlier era offer perfect festive reading — without today’s celebrity spin
Set in her native land, Liliana Corobca’s novel uses a child’s perspective to paint a vivid picture of cruelty and poverty
The author on how his dystopian vision of Ireland ‘Prophet Song’ holds warnings for us all
A terrible crime forms the backdrop for an exploration of French class anxiety in a strange, magnificent novel
This first English-language edition captures a postwar society caught between idealised past and traumatised present
Judges hail dystopian portrait of an imagined Ireland descending into totalitarianism
The award-winning author evokes a world of chaos and instability, with a multi-dimensional protagonist at its centre
A mystery narrative meets a chronicle of criminality with a cast of characters living in the now gentrified New York borough
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