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Author Art Spiegelman said he was ‘baffled’ by the school board’s decision and called it ‘Orwellian’
2022 is the year of the memoir - here’s our complete guide to the best new non-fiction arriving this year
Your reading pile is about to get even higher...
The extraordinary life - and death - of the media mogul whose boundless ambition included becoming Prime Minister reads like a gripping novel which happens to be true
Across almost 1,000 pages, Highsmith’s diaries keep us entertained - and appalled
The model and activist’s first essay collection meditates on her own #MeToo moments
This fascinating new book shows rather conclusively that the sixties was not a sexual paradise
Everyone’s cocktail-making lockdown crush has written a memoir about his culinary life
The verdict on Hillary Clinton’s foray into the world of writing political thrillers
As her novel The Mirror and the Light hits the stage, Hilary Mantel talks breaks with Europe, Afghanistan and why there is still mileage in Thomas Cromwell
The Harry Potter author gives us her Christmas Carol, and it’s a triumph, writes Amanda Craig
Her Booker win for Girl Woman Other changed her life overnight - but, in her new memoir, Evaristo shows she was far from an overnight success
Wole Soyinka’s reputation would be perfect if this book - his first novel in 50 years - did not exist, writes Tomiwa Owolade
It’s very different to anything she’s done before, but Lauren Groff’s fourth novel is profound and transcendental, writes Madeleine Feeny
This Booker-shortlisted follow-up to The Overstory probably won’t nab Richard Powers the prize, but it’s a moving and original read, writes Susannah Butter
Political insider and bestselling novelist Robert Harris on why Boris Johnson won’t survive, what Nadine Dorries really means for UK culture and why he sold his Aston Martin
The bestselling author speaks to Natasha Mwansa about the UK publishing industry’s failings, the shared black female experience and her new book Sista Sister
Sebastian Payne’s book investigates how - and why - Labour’s red wall crumbled. It’s an entertaining and insightful read, says Martha Gill
In this good hearted book, the former Shadow Chancellor traces the story of how England has changed by looking at what we eat
With his new book The Queer Bible, Jack Guinness is exploring his joy, his hurt and the conflict of the two, he tells David Ellis
The tenth novel from two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead is gloriously entertaining
Inspector Maigret returns in this enjoyable collection of short stories featuring Riviera glamour, a tense pursuit through Paris and bitter family division
The release of Sally Rooney’s third book is the biggest literary event of the year, with sold-out talks, contraband manuscripts being traded online and even bucket hats
Looking for a brain-expanding new read? Here’s our pick of this year’s best non-fiction so far
It’s plot holes ahoy in Richard Osman’s follow-up to his Thursday Murder Club bestseller - but you’ll probably enjoy it too much to care
This book based on Michaela Coel’s triumphant 2018 James MacTaggart Lecture doesn’t add much to what we’ve already heard, writes Tomiwa Owolade
Sally Rooney’s heavily anticipated third novel shows us an extravagantly talented writer who has become badly disillusioned with the world
This is a challenging and amusing guide to how to make the best use of the limited time we have, writes Robbie Smith
You’ll rip through Paula Hawkins’s exhilarating new thriller in hours
The historical parallels don’t need signposting - this timely royal biography about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor tells the ultimate tale of stepping back, writes Marcus Field
Former public schoolboy Richard Beard’s assessment of the institution that shaped him - and plenty of politicians - feels shallow and relies on generalisations, says William Moore
Happiness is a garden - and these books will help you make yours a gorgeous haven