Son of Nobody — Yann Martel’s epic, beguiling tale of past and present
The discovery of a Homeric-style poem and an academic’s life-in-the-footnotes are captivatingly entwined in the Booker-winner’s ambitious new novel
The discovery of a Homeric-style poem and an academic’s life-in-the-footnotes are captivatingly entwined in the Booker-winner’s ambitious new novel

Astringent, unsparing and generous by turns, the Canadian writer’s memoir is as compulsively readable as her best fiction

The US novelist probes the porous border between the real and the unreal in this thrilling hall of mirrors

Daniele Del Giudice’s first novel, finally available in English, creates a magical tension between an active life and the…

Doctors, dairy farmers, failed novelists — how authors’ fictional selves take on an identity all their own, distinct from their…

From political history to football fever, books by FT journalists and editors

A nameless narrator finds connections with the American pioneer of modernism in a confounding, compelling fiction-biography hybrid