On this week’s edition of The Bookshelf: dogs in literature, writing about Alzheimer’s and fragmenting language, big books versus novellas, and why there’s so much time travel in books right now. Reviewers Tony Birch and Beejay Silcox tackle these big reading questions and share an overview of October new releases, with a focus on Carrie Tiffany’s The Lady with the Dog, Favel Parrett’s One for Sorrow and Claire North’s As We Fall Through Time. Books featured The Lady with the Dog, Carrie Tiffany, New SouthOne for Sorrow, Favel Parrett, HachetteAs We Fall Through Time, Claire North, OrbitOther Books Mentioned Dogs in literature Women and Children, Tony BirchThe Odyssey, HomerDiscworld series, Terry PratchettThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David WroblewskiClariel, Garth NixFlush, Virginia WoolfThe Famous Five, Enid BlytonTenderfoot, Toni JordanRin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, Susan OrleanThe Friend, Sigrid NunezThe Philosopher's Dog, Raimond GaitaBig books vs Novellas China Miéville, The RouseMarlon James, The DisappearersPublic Access Afterworld, Jane SchoenbrunClaire Keegan, worksDark Roots, Cate Kennedy,The Song of Stork and Dromedary, Anjet DaanjeSusanna Clarke, worksO Now! — Niall WilliamsThe Lady with the Little Dog, Anton ChekhovTime Travel Playing Beatie Bow, Ruth ParkA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark TwainThe Ministry of Time, Kaliane BradleyTime Travel for Beginners, Jaclyn MoriartyLife Out of Order, Audrey NiffeneggerThe Other Valley, Scott Alexander HowardTime Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov,On the Calculation of Volume #5, Solvej BalleOctober new releases + other books mentioned A Court of Splintered Harmony, Sarah J. MaasFinding Justice, Larissa BehrendtDey, Edwidge DanticatBad Words, Rioghnach RobinsonFifty Beating Wonders, Michelle JohnstonMemoir, John McGahernMusic Against Time, Yiyun LiSwitzy, Emma ClineYou Must Remember This, Sean WilsonMusic Against Time, Yiyun LiPaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy DoyleThe Friday Bookshop, Sawako NatoriArendel, Karl Ove KnausgaardThe Housekeeper, Rose Tremain
