Martin Chilton

Chief Book Critic@MartinChilton

Martin Chilton is The Independent's chief book critic and a freelance writer on culture. He is the former culture editor at The Telegraph and sports editor at the Evening Standard. He has written four sports books and regularly chairs events at literary festivals, including at the Hay Festival and London Book Fair.

<p>Author Samantha Harvey, with her Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Orbital’ </p>

The inconvenient truth about this year’s Booker Prize winner

<p>November’s biggest releases include a new novel from Jonathan Coe and a history of Hollywood told through box office flops </p>

The best new books to read this November

<p>‘I began to question the very essence of what I was doing and why I was doing it’: Al Pacino in 1974</p>

How Al Pacino overcame addiction to become our greatest living actor

<p>October’s new releases include Josh Sims’s history of key fashion garments and Jeremy Crang’s deep dive into what life was like in the Second World War </p>

The best new books to read this October