George Sprott by Seth
Seth's monstrous new cartoon creation is a small masterpiece, writes Rachel Cooke
Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
A new star of Indian non-fiction is born with this searing memoir about the bloody struggle for justice in Kashmir, writes William Dalrymple
The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life by William Nicholson
There's nothing cosy about these cinematic scenes from a Sussex marriage, says Viv Groskop
Young Mandela by David James Smith
Justin Cartwright finds fascinating new detail in an account of Nelson Mandela's early life
I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson
Allison Pearson's first novel hit home for hard-pressed working mothers but will they buy a sappy David Cassidy teen romance, wonders Carole Cadwalladr
Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks
The writer's search for relief from chronic pelvic pain makes a great book out of a wee problem, says William Leith
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee and Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
Two beautifully written and artfully plotted novels takes readers inside the heads of reckless bankers before the crunch, writes William Skidelsky
The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rachel Redford is entranced by a sophisticated chiller for young adults from the author of The Shadow of the Wind
Satyricon by Petronius
Blasphemous, rude and obscene, Petronius's tales of Roman decadence are among the more entertaining legacies of antiquity, says Agnieszka Gratza
The Gospel of Filth: A Bible of Decadence and Darkness by Gavin Baddeley
Luke Jennings probes the darkness of satanist metal band Cradle of Filth
A Village Life by Louise Glück
Charles Bainbridge admires vignettes of Mediterranean life
My Bonnie: How Dementia Stole the Love of my Life by John Suchet, and Keeper: Living with Nancy. A Journey Into Alzheimer’s by Andrea Gillies
Two very different accounts of dementia struggle to make sense of a bewildering and frightening disease, says Kate Kellaway
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
Tate Britain's exhibition devoted to the history of irreverent, bawdy art offers up precious few laughs, writes Laura Cumming
Outside Inside by Bruce Davidson
A retrospective by Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson is an epic chronicle of postwar America says Sean O'Hagan
The Man on Devil’s Island by Ruth Harris
A brave new insight into the Dreyfus affair finds France in the 1890s riven by more than anti-Semitism, writes Ruth Scurr