Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones – review
James Purdon detects the influences of Dickens and Wilkie Collins in Lloyd Jones's moving follow-up to Master Pip
Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic by Fintan O’Toole – review
Fintan O'Toole's manifesto for a new Ireland impresses Sean O'Hagan
Perfect Lives by Polly Samson; Aphrodite’s Hat by Salley Vickers – review
Two new collections of short stories range confidently across moods and voices, says Stephanie Merritt
Taller When Prone by Les Murray – review
Les Murray's poetry is a masterclass in observation, writes Kate Kellaway
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt – review
Tony Judt never thought his dying memoir would be published. In fact it is a book to treasure, writes Peter Preston
Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev’s Dancers and Paris Fashion by Mary E Davis – review
Veronica Horwell on the ballet company that redefined fashion
Joseph K – review
Tom Basden's clever play, Jospeh K, at the Gate, London, offers a worryingly familiar yet crazy world that suggests that the madness of contemporary life drives us all insane, writes Lyn Gardner
When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat – review
Tutti Frutti's latest show, When We Lived in Uncle's Hat, at the Theatre Royal, York, elegantly adapted by Finegan Kruckemeyer from the charmingly surreal book, is a showpiece of masterful clowning, writes Alfred Hickling
Decision Points by George Bush – review
Short-sighted and lacking any real depth or analysis, George Bush's memoir is entirely in keeping with the man, says Rafael Behr
Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett – review
A noble effort, but one that will not supersede earlier biographies of the master of fiction, says Christopher Tayler
The Political Gene: How Darwin’s Ideas Changed Politics by Dennis Sewell – review
Can Charles Darwin be blamed for the uglier consequences of his ideas, asks Ned Denny
At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft/Culbard – review
Thanks to this superb graphic novel, you can now experience the thrill of HP Lovecraft without having to wade through his prose, says Rachel Cooke
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles – review
Jane Bowles's modernist tale of women stifled by their society is as unsettling as it is engrossing, writes Lettie Ransley
What Was the Hipster? Edited by Mark Greif, Kathleen Ross and Dayna Tortorici — review
An in-depth look at today's urban trendies finds they have become a punchbag for society's ills, writes Travis Elborough