On the centenary of her birth Open Book celebrates the novels of Iris Murdoch

Dolly Alderton and Clare Mackintosh

Open Book: Ocean Vuong; Bauhaus novels; Sudan literary postcard

Pam Hogg and Mark Billingham

David Nicholls discusses his latest novel Sweet Sorrow

Colm Tóibín on Wilde, Yeates and Joyce, Mary Beth Keane, the best novels of 1979

Benjamin Myers, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Valeria Luiselli

What are young people writing and reading?

Deborah Levy, therapists in fiction, India's richest literary prize, Lorca's symbolism

Robert Harris