Wuthering Heights review: too hot, too greedy adaptation guarantees bad dreams in the night

Emerald Fennell’s take on Emily Brontë is an emotionally hollow, bodice-ripping misfire that misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes

War of the Worlds review – HG Wells recast as a fever dream of fear and xenophobia

A visually arresting adaptation trades Martian menace for Enoch Powell-era paranoia – technically dazzling, politically pointed, yet also confusing

Stitch Head review – animated adaptation of hit Frankenstinian tale hangs loosely together

Asa Butterfield leads a cast of freaks looking for acceptance and love in a harsh and uncaring world in this rather melancholy version of Guy Bass’s kid-lit series

Female, Nude by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett review – a seductive drama of art and rivalry

Tensions simmer when a struggling artist joins her wealthy friends for a hen week on an exotic Greek island

Gordon Brown by James Macintyre review – a very different kind of politician

A new biography reveals Brown to be a man of exceptional vision and probity – what a contrast with today’s politics

Lord of the Flies review – Jack Thorne’s take on the classic is nowhere near the original’s power

The acting is absolutely excellent, but the script isn’t great. This show lacks the dread of William Golding’s novel

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Afterburn by Blake Morrison; Into the Hush by Arthur Sze; Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf; Only Sing by John Berryman; Lamping Wild Rabbits by Simon Maddrell; Dream Latitudes by Alia Kobuszko

Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman review – a perfect fairytale for our times

What does good living look like? With his marriage and career in meltdown, a man tries to get back to nature in this thought-provoking fable

Jean by Madeleine Dunnigan review – sex and teenage secrets

Queer self-discovery drives this powerful coming-of-age debut set in a bohemian 1970s school

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë audiobook review – Aimee Lou Wood reads the romance of the moment

As Emerald Fennell’s provocative adaptation hits screens, this narration from the White Lotus actor reminds us of the brilliance of Brontë’s tempestuous novel

Bugger by Michael Mohammed Ahmad review – tender, unflinching and difficult to read

The author’s fourth novel offers a devastating day in the life of a 10-year-old boy who cannot be kept safe

Leaving Home by Mark Haddon review – blistering memoir of a loveless childhood

The Curious Incident author describes the upbringing that shaped him – and for which he can’t help feeling nostalgia

On the Future of Species by Adrian Woolfson review – are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?

A genomic entrepreneur’s guide to the coming revolution in biology raises troubling questions about ethics and safety

Crux by Gabriel Tallent review – a passionate portrait of teenage climbers

The follow-up to My Absolute Darling, this tale of best friends who dream of a better life features exquisite sports writing and a lovable heroine – but the plotting is unconvincing

White River Crossing by Ian McGuire review – colonial greed drives a doomed hunt for gold

The author of The North Water vividly captures bleak beauty and brutish appetites on an 18th-century expedition into the frozen wilds of Canada