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• Steven Heighton: Piqued by a peak
  A news item about mountain climbers witnessing Chinese brutality inspired Steven Heighton’s new novel
  
  
• Karl Marlantes' 30 year war finally over with success of 'Matterhorn'
  The tale of the Greek king Sisyphus — doomed to spend eternity rolling a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down — could serve as a metaphor for what soldiers experienced during the Vietnam War. The unfamiliar jungles and terrain made even the most basic tasks extremely difficult, while the knowledge of wide protests back in the United States made the effort seem entirely futile
  
  
• Ian McEwan: Sometime skeptic
  With Solar, Ian McEwan takes on the deniers, both of climate change and of his work
  
  
• Douglas Coupland: Speaking to the past
  Novelist and artist Douglas Coupland reimagines the iconic design of Penguin paperback covers for the publisher's 75th anniversary
  
  
• Zoe Heller, Joseph O'Neill among Dublin IMPAC shortlisted writers
  Irish novelists Joseph O'Neill and American novelist Marilynne Robinson are among the eight writers nominated for the IMPAC Dublin literary prize, one of the largest literary prizes in the world
  
  
• Spring Books Quarterly: A summary
  Peruse our spring books section with this easy to navigate guide to the best of the season's fiction and non-fiction