Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey review – a comic take on newly single life
A sardonic story of divorce, depression and the road to recovery by the Schitt’s Creek screenwriter

From a surreal African kingdom to a Sri Lankan afterlife, via murder, morality, grief and healing … One of this year’s prize judges assesses the six finalists they must choose between

Burning Questions, Margaret Atwood: The novelist is frank, excellent company in her third volume of essays, covering the Obama years, #MeToo and Covid

Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love by Huma Qureshi review – a fine debut
In this first collection, sweetly domestic stories are complicated when characters confront hidden wounds

Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin review – family’s subtle poison
A finely observed Irish debut about a monstrous mother and dysfunctional siblings