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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson; Guilty By Definition by Susie Dent; Sanctuary by Garry Disher; The Examiner by Janice Hallett; Sounds Like a Plan by Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Kate Atkinson: ‘I do feel a need to prove myself’

As her latest Jackson Brodie thriller comes out, the award-winning author discusses cosy crime, sniffy critics, and how she investigated her own family’s secrets

The Guardian - UK

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Crime and thrillers of the month – review

In a month full of big hitters, Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie makes a welcome return, Mick Herron’s reissued debut doesn’t disappoint – and Janice Hallett is as ingenious as ever

The Guardian - UK

Pulp, page-turners and pure joy: the ultimate summer reading list, picked by you

After we published our list of the best beach reads, we asked readers for their suggestions – including ‘mercifully brief’ fantasy, raucous comedy and a crime thriller that’s ‘tense as hell’

The Guardian - AU

The week in TV: The Winter King; Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution; Vanishing Act; Gyeongseong Creature – review

ITV’s answer to Game of Thrones doesn’t stint on gore; disco gets the glittering treatment it deserves; Crimewatch meets Kath and Kim in a botched Australian true crime drama; and a sinister ‘creature’ stalks 1940s Korea

The Guardian - UK

Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson audiobook review – tales of fantastical mundanity

Paterson Joseph reads short stories of talking animals and ghostly revelations that weave into a melancholic, askew chimera of magic and quotidian woes

The Guardian - UK

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Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson review – a mixed bag of stories

The end of the world is repeatedly visited in this playful collection set in an alternative England

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 female spies in fiction

Women’s role in espionage, largely written by women, leans less on explosions and more on perception, nuance and explorations of sacrifice – though they still kick ass

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Book Of Fire by Christy Lefteri and Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck.

The Independent UK

Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson review – food for thought but such small portions

While brimming with ideas, the Life After Life author’s 11 interlinked stories aren’t given the legs they need to resonate

The Guardian - UK

Vanishing Act on ITVX – this scamming drama feels criminally misjudged

It’s a compelling true story that would have been better left as a documentary

Evening Standard

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart to Heartstopper: the seven best shows to stream this week

Sigourney Weaver stars in a beautifully shot drama as the guardian to a young granddaughter; while the smart, charming and innovative LGBTQ+ coming-of-age series returns

The Guardian - UK

Vanishing Act: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

Vanishing Act on ITVX is an Australian drama that follows the real-life mystery behind the disappearance of Melissa Caddick.

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Tribune News Service

10 books that 10 critics loved this year

“When Women Were Dragons,” by Kelly Barnhill. (Doubleday, $28.)

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Kate Atkinson dazzles with ‘Shrines of Gaiety’

"Shrines of Gaiety" by Kate Atkinson; Doubleday (416 pages, $29)

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Review: 'Shrines of Gaiety,' by Kate Atkinson

FICTION: Set in post-World War I London, Atkinson's latest follows a nightclub owner and her nefarious enterprises.

The Guardian - UK

Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson review – thrills, spills and gone girls

The award-winning author of Life After Life dazzles with a supple tale rich in period detail about the shady goings-on at a Soho nightclub

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The best new books released in September as selected by avid readers and critics

Our critics’ picks include a historical melodrama based on a real-life maybe murder, a romp through the illegal dance halls of 20s London and a gloriously biting satire set in Rwanda.

The Independent UK

‘Oh, she gets away with so much’: The mischievous world of Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson’s books have won prizes and been made into TV dramas, but the author prefers to let her work speak for itself. As her 12th novel ‘Shrines of Gaiety’ is released, Nick Duerden explores how she became one of our most brilliantly idiosyncratic bestsellers

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Shrines Of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson and Undoctored by Adam Kay.

The Guardian - UK

Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson review – exuberant nightclub saga

London’s criminal underworld between the wars is brought vividly to life in this witty ensemble tale

The Guardian - UK

Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy

It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on time-loop fiction: when the past is imperfect

Editorial: It’s no coincidence that novels, romcoms and video games are all embracing the idea that history can be replayed

The Guardian - UK

Life After Life review – a thoroughly addictive weepathon

This adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s novel about a woman who keeps on dying and being reborn is so full of grief it can feel overwhelming – but the anguish is irresistible

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