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Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride/The Complaints by Ian Rankin

The Sunday Times review by Karen Robinson

A Dead Hand by Paul Theroux

The Sunday Times review by Peter Parker: Theroux returns to India in a jumbled tale of Hindu gods, tantric sex and murder mystery

The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills/The Wonder by Diana Evans/A Winding Road by Jonathan Tulloch

The Sunday Times review by Trevor Lewis

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend

The Sunday Times review by Sophie Harrison: our hero is approaching 40, and his bladder is playing up. The latest Adrian Mole story is both...

A Life in the Day: Jeffrey Archer

The author and former MP, 69, on getting old, staying healthy and his low-maintenance wife, Mary

The Wainscott Weasel by Tor Seidler

The Sunday Times review by Nicolette Jones

Short Story: Transmission by David Vann

A man finds himself contemplating the past with his grandfather. Will they have more in common than they think?

Under the Dome by Stephen King

The Sunday Times review by John Dugdale

Natalie Sandison reviews the week’s paperback fiction

The Beacon by Susan Hill

Published: Nabokov’s secret last novel

Son says the writer would bless from the grave his decision to countermand instructions to consign it to the flames

The conversation: Anne Rice

Her hugely successful vampire novels made her the Queen of Southern Gothic until one day she reverted to the Roman Catholicism of her youth. Rice...

Artifacts by Leanne Shapton

A love story told ingeniously in the form of an invented auction catalogue has become a big US hit - with a Brad Pitt movie to follow

Kate Saunders’ fiction reviews of the week: November 7, 2009

The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadevi, Kissing Alice by Jacqueline Yallop, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend

Legend of a Suicide by David Vann

The Times review by Tom Gatti

The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov’s final, unfinished, novel has been published by his son, but as Jeanette Winterson asks — is it what the writer would have...

Lisa Tuttle reviews novels that reveal sci-fi's future and its past

Makers by Cory Doctorow, FlashForward by Robert J. Sawyer, Songs of the Dying Earth edited by George R. R . Martin and Gardner Dozois

Chat live with Ben Elton: Thursday November 19 from 4pm

A window to the soul of John Keats

As the Romantic poet is celebrated in a major film, our writer searches for his spirit in the city in which he died

John Keats: How to write a love letter

It’s never too late to become a Romantic poet. Our expert looks at the passion that drives us to verse and provides guidance on how to craft a...

In the name of the father

A powerful new voice has emerged in fiction. David Vann's extraordinary stories are haunted by the suicide of his father, which shattered his world