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This week's books; Banville, Minchin, Finn and Morgan, Child and Harris

Fiction that has a distinct bang of the supernatural

Savour some superb cookbooks from a few of our leading chefs

Memoir of Bernard Phelan: a 'truly terrifying story'

‘A superior children’s book in every way'

This week: a book of ghosts

Two new rugby books 'both beautiful, informative and written with passion'

'Atkinson has never had as much fun as this; it’s a triumph'

This week: a book subtitled 'The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed'

This week: 'as breathtaking an example of literary genius as you’ll find'

The woman who had her own war to fight during WWII

Broderick novel 'enjoying a posthumous revival and deservedly so'

Reading for last few weeks of the summer break

This week: a tense novel about a girl who disappeared on her way from the UK to Ireland