Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram review – cult anime goes on wild treasure hunt

The latest outing for the high school sleuth sees him join forces with his arch enemy, a master thief. Despite some flashes of brilliance, the script soon becomes convoluted

Agimat by Romalyn Ante review – spells to ward off trauma

The poet and nurse’s second collection melds medical imagery with Filipino myth to make sense of Covid, love and loss

A Woman Like Me: A Memoir by Diane Abbott review – rich and complex record of resilience

Though vague about her own achievements, Britain’s first Black female MP paints an absorbing picture of her remarkable life and sheer determination in a gossip-free but frank and, at times, funny autobiography

Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton review – the pain of post-Trump stress disorder

The woman who hoped to become America’s first female president seems unable to accept her 2016 defeat, coming across in this memoir as uptight and grandiose

On Freedom by Timothy Snyder review – an essential manifesto for change

This visionary companion title to 2017’s On Tyranny reclaims the notion of liberty from the right and identifies the tenets of a free society

The Art of Uncertainty by David Spiegelhalter review – a search for sense in probability and chance

In this timely book, the distinguished statistician shows how simple arithmetic can impose order on the risks that are an integral part of life

The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle review – his best yet

In the third outing for Paula Spencer – mother, alcoholic, domestic abuse survivor – Doyle captures her strength and vulnerability in prose that radiates energy and life

A Kid from Marlboro Road by Edward Burns review – the most Irish-American novel of the year

A 12-year-old New Yorker records his childhood memories and family anecdotes in the film-maker’s vivid and tender first book

A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas review – an extraordinary book

The late author’s reflections on his cancer diagnosis thrum with life and wit, and will make you laugh and cry

All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – poignant meditation on masculinity and alienation

A working-class writer rails against the corporate world and small-mindedness in a striking debut novel written as a monologue

In brief: My Roman Year; Madwoman; Mapping the Darkness – review

A sensuous memoir by the author of Call Me by Your Name; a suspenseful tale about a mother’s trauma-haunted double life; and the science of sleep illuminatingly explored

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney review – is there a better writer at work right now?

With her fourth novel, the Normal People author leans fully into her talent, creating a funny, tender tale of two grieving brothers and their messy love lives that’s utterly perfect

Something Lost, Something Gained review – Hillary Clinton still plagued by what could have been

Fourth memoir by former first lady and Democratic presidential candidate unlikely to win her fans

The Haunted Wood: a History of Childhood Reading by Sam Leith review – young at heart

A thoughtful, witty and warmhearted journey through children’s literature

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman; Guide Me Home by Attica Locke; Five By Five by Claire Wilson; The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani; I Died at Fallow Hall by Bonnie Burke-Patel