The 14 best books to look forward to this autumn

The 14 best books to look forward to this autumn

Autumn is bringing a bumper crop of literary heavyweights. Margaret Atwood is turning her gaze inward with a memoir that promises the same sharp intelligence and sly humour that shaped her fiction, and Zadie Smith returns with a new essay collection. Ian McEwan is back with a new novel that blends the intimate and the political in his unmistakable style, while Paul McCartney is swapping melody for memory with a book about the music, madness and …