Rooney’s latest novel is about grown brothers, a successful barrister and a competitive chess player, who are mourning the death of their father and navigating the lingering bitterness between them. But its primary subject, as in all of Rooney’s work, is love in its various permutations, the minutiae of falling in and out of it.

A wedding brings out the best and worst in people. Tensions run high, as do the comedic and dramatic possibilities during a wedding taking place in the shattered world of the 2008 Great Recession. The Pulitzer and National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrich captures it all in The Mighty Red,

The top book of the week goes to Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst… 1. Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst is published in hardback by Picador, priced £22 (ebook £11.99). Available October 3 Dave Win is an outsider.

New non-fiction titles to look out for.

We’re in the midst of an ever-present but light curtain of rain over my city of Washington, DC, which means it’s the perfect time to open up a window, get a cup of coffee, and start a new book to distract myself from how gloomy it’s been.