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Our books editor Zoe West gives us her favourite picks for the month, plus Cathy Bramley shares her writing secrets

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

Much to his own wife’s relief, author Peter Swanson has just used his imagination — and a love of Hitchcock — to fire his latest thriller about a failing marriage

Illustrations by Chris Bentham Out 7 August (Atlantic Books, £16.99) This looks like another smash hit from the reliable Shteyngart, renowned author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friend

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