Gray: Beyond the Horizon is an interactive, multimedia journey through, round and about Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, from the extremely clever people at the Alasdair Gray Archive, with writer and digital designer Rachel Loughran.

Read an extract in the Observer from Faith, Hope and Carnage, the new book by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan – a meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more.

A wonderful review of Amy Liptrot’s The Instant in the New York Times:

“It feels revelatory to read serious, thoughtful writing on the sorts of experiences that so rarely receive it. The book is particularly sharp on the agony of a relationship’s aftermath in a digital age. At one point, Liptrot refers to the German word Fernweh (distance pain), which describes a reverse homesickness that makes you long for somewhere else. The Instant is the most elegant examination of the internet’s distance pain I have ever read.”

It’s almost 20 years since the evening Yann Martel’s Life of Pi won the Booker Prize: read this exclusive interview with Martel about the (rigorous!) process of researching and writing the novel, as well as about religious belief, and the relationship between facts and storytelling.

“Our sense of home explored through the story of a journalist’s friendship with a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor… It is a cliché to describe a book as achingly beautiful, but those are the words I reach for: Homelands is both beautiful and, at times, left me with an ache I struggled to name.”

“A lot of nature writing is quite chaste, so I wanted to put the sex into nature writing. So humans as animals, and human instincts, and how the internet and digital technology allows us to amplify our animal instincts is of interest to me, in terms of searching for things, in terms of sexual opportunities, in terms of seasons.”

Amy Liptrot has been interviewed in the Guardian ahead of publication of her new book The Instant. You can also read an extract from the book.

The Guardian reviews the star-studded audiobook of Letters of Note: