The week in audio: Things Fell Apart; The Queen’s Reading Room; Who Do You Really Think You Are? – review
Jon Ronson’s state-of-the-world series returns with aplomb, a books podcast is a royal bore, and Adam Rutherford sets out to prove we’re all blue-blooded
October 2023
What we're reading
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October
Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
September 2023
Audiobook of the week
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel audiobook review: existential envy
The author narrates her own brisk tale of a thirtysomething’s caustic coveting of status, sex and wealth with a winningly dispassionate style
June 2023
Summer books: Zadie Smith, Ian Rankin, Richard Osman and others pick their favourites
Leading authors recommend the best recent books, from a forbidden love affair at the Western Front to a murder mystery set in Egypt
June 2022
Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls and more pick their favourites
Authors recommend their favourite recent reads, from addictive novels and fascinating cultural history to a game-changing graphic memoir
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Sally Rooney, Stephen King and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some wonderful new paperbacks, from new editions of classic Marvel comics to great novels for the summer
The books of my life
Ian Rankin: ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a perfect gem of a story’
The crime writer on being fascinated by A Clockwork Orange, inspired by Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and taking comfort in Muriel Spark’s novel
September 2021
Crime and thrillers roundup
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin; Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty; Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden; The Whistleblower by Robert Peston; and The Wrong Goodbye by Toshihiko Yahagi
July 2021
I don’t know why Jackie Leven isn’t better known – he should be revered
Ian Rankin
As the late Scottish troubadour gets his first greatest hits album, novelist and collaborator Ian Rankin recalls his relationship with this chronicler of alienation and fragile masculinity
March 2021
Books that made me
Jessie Greengrass: 'Frog and Toad Are Friends contains one of the best jokes ever written'
The author on underrated ‘great of feminist literature’ Gaudy Night, looking forward to every Ian Rankin novel, and never finishing Middlemarch
February 2021
My favourite Ishiguro: by Margaret Atwood, Ian Rankin and more
Authors choose the Kazuo Ishiguro novels closest to their hearts, including Never Let Me Go, The Buried Giant and The Remains of the Day
Ian Rankin: 'Why does it take celebrity voices for disabled people to be heard?'
Scotland’s pre-eminent crime writer joins broadcaster Jo Whiley berating ‘woeful’ treatment of people with learning difficulties over Covid
Ian Rankin hits out at lack of Covid jab advice for people with learning disabilities
Crime writer accuses governments of ignoring people like his 26-year-old son, who is in a care home
December 2020
Ian Rankin to complete William McIlvanney’s final novel The Dark Remains
Due out next year, the novel will see the Rebus creator fill out notes for another Laidlaw mystery left by the revered Scottish crime writer on his death in 2015
November 2020
Thrillers of the month
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson makes a winning debut
October 2020
The Q&A
Ian Rankin: ‘I became a suspect in a real-life case while researching my first novel’
The crime writer on chocolate, fictional sex and missing his son
July 2020
‘With Edinburgh empty, we’re seeing our city through tourists’ eyes’
Novelist Ian Rankin and other locals walk Edinburgh’s locked-down, tourist-free streets, and discover parts of the city they never knew existed
June 2020
Lee Child on Jack Reacher: 'I don't like him that much'
Author says he takes a hard-hearted approach to character and planned to kill him off
May 2020
Lockdown culture
Scenes for Survival review – Brian Cox is Inspector Rebus under lockdown
