Six Good Books The best books of 2015 From the laureate of family life to a literary shepherd. Plus, the preoccupations of 50-somethings
Six Good Books The only word for love in North Korea Ordinary lives turn dramatic in a Booker prize contender. Plus a harrowing escape from the Hermit Kingdom
Six Good Books Infused with a musing melancholy Crime fiction meets coming-of-age in a gripping debut. Plus the new Harper Lee
Six Good Books The trial that gripped Australia A courtroom drama, a poetic pilot and a death-defying poet
Six Good Books The two best reads of 2014 Plus the gripping history of a working-class family and a puckish Peter Carey
Six Good Books Marion Coutts’ fierce memoir A shocking account of loss, an enlightening guide to money, and a moving novel from Marilynne Robinson
Six Good Books Help from a feathered friend The remarkable story of Mabel the hawk, another fine Sarah Waters, and looking into Nicolson’s Homer
Six Good Books An epic about life underground A novelistic history of a mining family, and fiction set in wartime Europe and 21st-century New York