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A classic Yeti romp with 28 possible endings, a Blade Runner-style thriller and more adventures on the Thames with Jessie BurtonBefore video games dangled dopamine hits and a sense of agency, there were Choose Your Own Adventure books, where the ...

This account of Dr Crippen's notorious Edwardian-era killing shifts the focus to the women at the centre of the sordid tale ...

'I am a crime writer, I understand theft,' said Val McDermid - joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalf ...

'Follow your instincts' has become a modern mantra. But what if they lead you astray?

A breezy but ambiguous allegory arranges its symbols with appealing wit ...

Two enjoyable debut novels put fresh meat on Fitzgerald's deathless classic - one a modern-day retelling in which Gatsby becomes a female influencer, another a pacy murder mystery in the vein of Agatha Christie ...

In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto Pinochet ...

The Guardian journalist's tender account of how music became a bridge between him and his autistic son, James, is full of wit and wisdom ...

Didier Eribon's guilt and shame fuels an angry and eloquent meditation on our attitudes towards the elderly and the end of life ...