The Guardian (Literature)

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman audiobook review – a mesmerising reading by Ruth Wilson
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
Elizabeth Strout: ‘I would never ask someone to read my books!’
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell review – the lessons of pain
Erotic Review ‘moving away from the male gaze’ with 80% female contributors
Taken As Red by Anushka Asthana review: the story behind Keir Starmer’s path to power
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez review – gothic horror with a twist
A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry review – life’s rich pageant
Money by David McWilliams review – the story of cold hard cash
Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans review – a deeply pleasurable postwar tale
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst review – his finest novel yet
Agimat by Romalyn Ante review – spells to ward off trauma
‘Having been repeatedly annihilated by my mother, I’m resilient as hell’: Gwyneth Lewis
A Woman Like Me: A Memoir by Diane Abbott review – rich and complex record of resilience
Jonathan Coe and Kit de Waal among 35 writers of ‘protest zine’ defending threatened Birmingham libraries
Novelist Rebecca Watson: ‘What are siblings: twisted reflections of ourselves? Allies? Enemies?’
Poem of the week: Llyfr Geirfa fy Nhad / My Father’s Vocabulary Book by Gwyneth Lewis
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder review – an essential manifesto for change
The Art of Uncertainty by David Spiegelhalter review – a search for sense in probability and chance
The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle review – his best yet