Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital tops UK bestseller list

The short novel narrating a day in the life of six astronauts on the International Space Station becomes the first book to top the charts in the week of its win

Stay With Me by Hanne Ørstavik review – looking for love

The acclaimed Norwegian author explores the impact of childhood trauma in this portrait of a life lived in fear

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller review – light in the darkness

Set during the Big Freeze of 1962-3, this story of two marriages brilliantly evokes the legacy of the second world war

Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate

Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package

The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: a whole new perspective

Editorial: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, a love letter to our wounded planet, is the perfect choice for the political moment

Juice by Tim Winton review – eloquent cry of a climate vigilante

This sci-fi tale of avengers hunting polluters in a scorched Australian dystopia serves as an essential call to arms over global heating

The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter review – an innovative spy tale

A former MI5 agent establishes herself as a heroine for the ages in a fresh thriller about intelligence-gatherers past and present

Colm Tóibín: ‘Ireland today is a much freer place’

The Irish author on how the sequel to his bestselling novel Brooklyn was inspired by the film, life in LA, and his thoughts on Trump’s victory

In brief: Nobody’s Empire; Cocktails With George and Martha; Never: The Autobiography – review

A touching coming-of-age novel from the Belle and Sebastian singer; a blow-by-blow account of a classic film; and pop star Rick Astley’s idiosyncratic life story

Richard Flanagan: ‘I’m not sure that I will write again’

The Tasmanian novelist – whose latest book, Question 7, is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes – on HG Wells, the TV adaptation of his Booker prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North… and his much-missed parrot, Herb

‘She gave me the chance that became my life’: Jeanette Winterson on her first editor, Philippa Brewster

The pioneering feminist editor and publisher died in October. The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit author looks back on the close friendship they shared

‘Uniquely qualified’: Elizabeth Jane Howard’s niece to continue her Cazalet Chronicles novels

Novelist Louisa Young will write the sixth, seventh and eighth books in a move that ‘will thrill existing readers’

The Thinning by Inga Simpson review – apocalyptic thriller offers glimpse of a better world

Two teens embark on a race against time across a ravaged Australia in this stunningly wrought dystopian novel

Suggested in the Stars by Yōko Tawada review – a linguistic odyssey

The Japanese novelist explores the relationship between language and national identity, in the second part of her Scattered All Over the Earth trilogy

Fire Exit by Morgan Talty review – secrets and lies in Maine

The virtues of truth-telling are explored in this tale of one man’s need to confront and reveal his past