The Place of Tides by James Rebanks review – a warming tale of gathering eiderdown in Norway

The Shepherd’s Life author trades the Lake District for a remote island just below the Arctic Circle, where he joins an ‘unbreakable’ septuagenarian keeping an ancient family tradition alive

Fire Exit by Morgan Talty review – beautifully crafted debut set in a Native community in the US

Misfortune, guilt and loneliness collide as a man struggles to understand his past and the daughter he never knew in a moving story about identity

Melania by Melania Trump review – a blame-dodging masterclass

Ex-first lady strategically avoids many key subjects in memoir seemingly at odds with Republican party

In brief: The Catchers; Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife; Every Man for Himself and God Against All – review

Xan Brooks’s second novel takes readers on a musical road trip through 1920s Appalachia; a story-packed history celebrates inspirational medieval women; and a characteristically unusual memoir from Werner Herzog

The Care Dilemma by David Goodhart review – a flawed study of family life

The Road to Somewhere author argues that the liberating impact of feminism has harmed our children in a book shot through with claims that don’t stand up to scrutiny

The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London

With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates

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

William by Mason Coile; The Tapestry of Time by Kate Heartfield; The Wilding by Ian McDonald; Of the Flesh: 18 Stories of Modern Horror; A Christmas Ghost Story by Kim Newman

May Day by Jackie Kay audiobook review – family, love and activism

The Scottish author and poet is a warm, wry companion in an autobiographical collection of poems, written in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths

The Book of Abba by Jan Gradvall review – dark backstories and new revelations

From Himmler to herring, a Swedish journalist offers unexpected angles on the 70s supergroup

Juice by Tim Winton review – a beautiful story of a horrifying future

The author has simultaneously written a love letter to Australia and hate mail to those who lay waste to the Earth. Read it and weep

The Catchers by Xan Brooks review – this dark picaresque is a delight

A ‘song-catcher’ trawls rural America for hits in this novel of race and music, set against the backdrop of the great Mississippi flood

What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci review – starry friends and tasty morsels

Slop with Ralph Fiennes and champagne with Jilly Cooper – a gastronomical actor’s escapades

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You by Miranda Hart review – chronic illness and love at last

After years of misery with undiagnosed Lyme disease, the entertainer shares her lessons for living

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult review – Shakespeare was a woman

Through a modern playwright and a Tudor figure, the bestselling American author creates a dual narrative about the erasure of women’s creativity

England: A Natural History by John Lewis-Stempel review – an amiable ramble

The nature writer sets out in search of England’s green and pleasant land – but leaves a lot unexplored