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Your Fault: London review – British-set remake of Spanish step-sibling romance lacks passion or fizz

A second helping of the English-language adaptation of Mercedes Ron’s trilogy sustains little chemistry between its supposedly besotted lead characters

Collapse by Édouard Louis review – coming to terms with a brother’s death

In the latest autofictional instalment of his family saga, the French writer makes sense of his sibling’s violent homophobia and short life

Morbid by Saul Justin Newman review – why everything you think you know about longevity is wrong

Is Japan really full of centenarians? And what about ‘blue zones’? A brilliant skewering of ageing secrets and lies

The Uses of Utopia by Joad Raymond Wren review – can the ideal society ever exist?

This fascinating intellectual history takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin

Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens review – the last day of maternity leave is a comic rollercoaster

Parenting is represented in all its hilarious, moving and truthfully plodding detail, in the story of a mother and her two little boys

Wash by Erica Wagner review – vivid portrait of a monumental American

The life of the Brooklyn Bridge’s chief engineer inspires this multifaceted novel

Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature

This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

Not With a Bang by Temi Oh; Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh; Atomic Coffin by Benedict Anning; The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden; Bad Things Happen Here by Mark Morris

The Long Drop review – Denise Mina’s whisky-soaked tale of triple murder is horribly gripping

The novel is adapted with equal parts wit and horror to capture the depravity of a notorious crime in Glasgow

The Twitnam Summer by Hester Grant review – Swift, Gay and Pope’s season in the sun

A historian makes the case that a meeting of minds in 1726 changed the course of English literature

How to Love the World by Ilka Tampke review – a woman is trapped by a fallen tree

The stuck narrator records the minutiae of the forest and her harrowing life in a purposeful novel that demands a slow read but doesn’t always reward it

The Artist by Lucy Steeds audiobook review – a sensory feast in Provence

A reclusive artist is the reluctant subject of a journalist’s attention in a rich world of scents, scenery and secrets

Frida Slattery As Herself by Ana Kinsella review – will-they-won’t-they in a skilful theatrical romance

This impressive and charismatic debut novel revisits an actor and a director over various collaborations

Lovers XXX by Allie Rowbottom review – a wild journey through the 80s LA porn scene

A young woman begins a career in the adult industry while, 30 years later, her friend tries to find out what happened to her, in an addictive, twist-filled story

Stolen Revolution by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati review – Iran’s recent history explained

This account of the Islamic Republic and its discontents told via six contrasting lives should be required reading

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