New Year, New Literary Fiction: Alive in the Merciful Country by A L Kennedy, Havoc by Christopher Bollen, Good Girl by Aria Aber

Claire Alfree reviews the best Literary Fiction out this week.

Chilling Crime to read this January: Murder for Busy People by Tony Parsons, The Bookseller by Tim Sullivan, A Voice in the Night by Simon Mason

Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best Crime novels out now.

Chilling Crime to read this January: Murder for Busy People by Tony Parsons, The Bookseller by Tim Sullivan, A Voice in the Night by Simon Mason

Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best Crime novels out now.

The best paperbacks to read in the first week of 2025: The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey, Night Watch by Jane Anne Phillips, Clickbait by L.C. North

Jane Shilling reviews the best paperbacks out now.

The best paperbacks to read in the first week of 2025: The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey, Night Watch by Jane Anne Phillips, Clickbait by L.C. North

Jane Shilling reviews the best paperbacks out now.

'Subtle and dramatic' – The best historical fiction out now: The Life of Herod The Great by Zora Neale Hurston, The Players by Minette Walters, The Blackbirds of St Giles by Lila Cain

Eithne Farry reviews the best Historical fiction out this week.

'Subtle and dramatic' – The best historical fiction out now: The Life of Herod The Great by Zora Neale Hurston, The Players by Minette Walters, The Blackbirds of St Giles by Lila Cain

Eithne Farry reviews the best Historical fiction out this week.

In this week's What Book find out which best-selling author Jodi Picoult doesn't like

Jodi Picoult answers our burning questions, what is she reading, what book would she take to a desert island, what…

In this week's What Book find out which best-selling author Jodi Picoult doesn't like

Jodi Picoult answers our burning questions, what is she reading, what book would she take to a desert island, what…

25 novels for 2025: From Hilary Mantel to Richard Osman and Kazuo Ishiguro, the best fiction of the century…so far

The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century.