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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 ...

This timely and important book reveals Barbados plantation owner James Drax to be the equal of Robert Clive or Cecil Rhodes in his profiteering from human misery ...

A night of violence exposes the dynamics of race, masculinity and privilege at play in America's schools ...

A book about psychiatrist William Sargant's unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimonies ...

The International Booker-longlisted Italian novelist on why he chose to rewrite Georges Perec, his preference for description over dialogue and being part of an anti-gentrification collective in Milan ...

Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International Booker ...

The award-winning writer turned the Jack the Ripper case on its head. Now she is giving Dr Crippen the same treatment - and questioning how we tell stories about murderous men ...