From Booker-listed Marlon James to a memoir by Michael Douglas – the biggest books this autumn

Guardian International•Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 08:00 AM•2 min read

Midlife meditations from Barbara Kingsolver; musical portraits by Jonathan Coe and Yiyun Li; plus memoirs from Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench – all among the coming season’s highlights The Disappearers by Marlon James Hamish Hamilton, 3 September After a detour into mythic fantasy, the author of t...

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