And Their Children After Them review – racism and revenge festers in smalltown France

Nineties-set drama adapted from the bestselling novel zeroes in on tensions in a post-industrial community, sparked by a feud over a motorbike

Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon review – brilliant tales of beasts

Greek myths inspire a masterly short-story collection that takes in ghosts, gods and meditations on mortality

Hundreds of titles from Judy Blume to Mark Twain purged from school libraries following rightwing challenges

Editorial: The Gallagher brothers might have taken their feuding to extremes, but it is nothing new

Mammoth by Eva Baltasar; Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes; The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem; Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto

A polemical collection of the writer’s 70s journalism on feminism read by the voice actor Laurel Lefkow is just as relevant today

The star’s compendium of X-rated female wish-fulfilment makes for compelling, if not entirely candid, reading

McFarlane’s lyrical follow-up to The Sun Walks Down explores the reverberations of violence, and the stories we tell about crime

Life in the capital is vividly evoked, in a tale of love and loss spanning four decades

The TV presenter and former music PR on her eventful rise through the ranks of a male-dominated industry

An extraordinary portrait of a frustrated and furious 1950s American housewife, based on the diaries of Self’s mother

The historian turns Liz Truss’s 49-day tenure into a textbook on bad government, writes former Conservative MP Dominic Grieve

An engrossing, comprehensive and gloriously bizarre portait of the late monarch

An important memoir about the reverberations of a difficult childhood is marred by self-critical asides

Pierre Niney plays the man behind the multiple masks in this fast-moving adaptation that needs a touch more finesse