Our Book of the Week this week is Jesse Ball's compelling, elegant, disconcerting new novel The Divers' Game. What happens when a society renounces the pretence of equality, when small acts of kindness are practically unknown, when what we would see as cruelty is sanctioned? This book is a subtle, spare and affecting meditation on violence, longing and beauty. 
>>Read Stella's review. 
>>Read an extract. 
>>Preview the book. 
>>"We labour under tyrants." 
>>"Formal mysteriousness and neon moral clarity." 
>>"Empathy eroded at every level." 
>>Click and collect. 
>>Read our reviews of Ball's previous book, Census. 
>>Other books by Jesse Ball.