
BOOK REVIEWS
The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky
Sci-fi writers turn to detective fiction
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
An extraordinary Venus fly trap of a novel; enter at your peril
A beach holiday provokes dark memories
Mika pits her wits against a master thief
A sharp-eyed orphan teams up with a gruff detective.
A collection of short columns for The Guardian
Island observations
Horror on the farm
Rural life on a weather-beaten island
An elegant, thoughtful novel of memory and art
Sci-fi writers turn to detective fiction
A winsome manual for living
Blurring the line between fact and fiction
A raw, magnetic portrait of reason unspooling
A sombre, beautiful portrayal of human nature
Dark, funny, and winsome
A bleak tale of loneliness and marginalisation
An extraordinary Venus fly trap of a novel; enter at your peril
A caper across Europe on the road to death
Murder and superstition in northern Spain