David O’Connor writes: The titles of Adrian Duncan’s novels tend to refer to work. Place of, time off, profession. Love Notes From a German Building Site; A Sabbatical in Leipzig; The Geometer Lobachevsky. Not so the recently published The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth – though it is, in the first of its two parts,…

Aimée Walsh writes: There are few writers whose books do that rare thing of being a cultural event that breaks beyond the literary world. Sally Rooney, whose work has become a (reluctant) emblem for millennial angst or ‘sad girl lit’, is a writer who does just that. Her books span the cleft between commercial fiction…