Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural imagination, Caleb Femi’s rave-influenced poetry collection and new novels by Adam ...

Bill Gates’s first memoir; new novels by Ali Smith, Anne Tyler and TJ Klune; a Booker Prize nominee and more.

Anyone could make a mistake in thinking that the “fiction” bit of science fiction absolves the genre of any responsibility to ...

Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning novel 'Orbital' is far more than science-fiction; it raises deeper questions about what it ...

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Dylan Thomas Prize; Classics Now; The Last Boy; Mick Herron award; Susan ...