Streaming: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical and the best adaptations of classic children’s books

The latest all-singing version of Matilda, now on Netflix, joins an impressive library of thoughtful film versions of seminal kids’ books, from Paddington to Kes

Self-Made by Tara Isabella Burton review – selfie society

An insightful romp through the cult of celebrity, from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Brick Lane by Monica Ali audiobook review – survival, freedom and fate

Anneika Rose and Zubin Varla star in this retelling of Ali’s bestseller about a young Bangladeshi woman who makes her life in east London

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Black River by Nilanjana Roy; Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen; Killingly by Katharine Beutner; The End of Us by Olivia Kiernan; The Trial by Rob Rinder

Bellies by Nicola Dinan review – the fizz of first love

The complex layers beneath interpersonal relationships are closely observed in this moving debut of friendship, transitioning and first love

Feast by Emily O’Grady review – tense and triumphant look at the unmet needs of women

A fading rock star and once-famous actor enjoy a reclusive life in an old Scottish manor – until his ex and daughter come to visit

The Bathysphere Book by Brad Fox review – mysteries of the deep

The story of an early deep-sea voyage and the strange world it uncovered

Azúcar by Nii Ayikwei Parkes review – a honey-sweet fable

In his second novel, set in a fictional Caribbean country, the British Ghanian author pays homage to the staying power of migrant communities

The Diary of Virginia Woolf review – a book for the ages

Woolf’s epic and unmatchable record of her life, times and writing process

Reproduction by Louisa Hall review – pregnancy, pain and Frankenstein

A visceral novel about Mary Shelley, the violence of procreation and our overheating planet

The Wicker Man review – brilliant conspiracy chiller is a one-movie genre in itself

The satirical masterpiece goes well beyond what one expects from folk horror, with Edward Woodward as the priggish cop sent to investigate a pagan island

The Driver’s Seat (AKA Identikit) review – Elizabeth Taylor captivates in bizarre 70s mystery

Taylor is both hammy and subtle as a woman on the verge of a breakdown in this preposterous but watchable 1974 drama that features an extraordinary cameo from Andy Warhol

Allergic by Theresa MacPhail review – in canaries the coal mine

Is environmental change behind the mysterious rise in allergies, from asthma to anaphylaxis?

Be Mine by Richard Ford review – America, the fool’s paradise

The final Frank Bascombe book explores happiness and denial, completing a social history of Ford’s own boomer generation from midlife to end times

The Super 8 Years review – the family life of a Nobel prizewinner caught on film

Literary ambition, motherhood and a quietly strained marriage appear in the sweet, soft focus home movies of French author Annie Ernaux