Didn’t You Use to Be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010-2022 review – blasts from the sidelines
The views of the former Labour minister make for jarring moments in this latest volume of his diaries
On Women by Susan Sontag review – some sister she was…
This new collection of 70s journalism exposes a sexist and wrongheaded essayist with an unwarranted reputation
At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn Bromwich review – an accomplished, unsettling debut
A woman retreats to a forest in northern Italy in an immersive first novel that explores what it means to inhabit a female body yet reject femininity
In brief: The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone; God Is an Octopus; His Name Is George Floyd – reviews
A bold murder mystery of the Welsh valleys, a moving memoir of grief and rewilding, and a rigorous, historical biography
Is This OK? by Harriet Gibsone review – warped intimacy and mixed blessings
The journalist’s eye-wateringly honest account of searching for connection online is relatable, funny and wise
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee review – the genes, the dreams
In this heartfelt memoir, the columnist considers how a century-long commitment to human improvement inspired her family
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein review – a family in peril
The journalist’s story of how his parents lived through the Holocaust reads like a thriller, but it’s the wider focus on how liberal values were powerless in the face of fascism that makes it a modern classic
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray review – master of the generation game
Murray’s brilliant new novel, about a rural Irish clan, is pure pleasure and posits the author as Dublin’s answer to Jonathan Franzen
Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack review – folk’s fragile man of mystery
This definitive study of the venerated singer-songwriter, who died at 26, examines his alarming unravelling and short life of artistic torment
The Supermajority review: How the supreme court trumped America
Michael Waldman delivers a terrific if chilling account of how conservatives hijacked US democracy
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong review – a masterpiece of Korean history
This epic political novel traces the country from Japanese occupation through partition, as experienced by a family of railway workers
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy audiobook review – love across the sectarian divide
Actor Bríd Brennan narrates this debut novel about a dangerous love affair between an Irish Catholic teacher and a Protestant lawyer
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Up Late by Nick Laird; Women in Comfortable Shoes by Selima Hill; Blood Feather by Patrick McGuinness; You Don’t Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis by CAConrad; Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders; A Method, A Path by Rowan Evans
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing by Scott J Shapiro – hacking for beginners
A fascinating history of cybercrime, from teenage pioneers to international bot armies
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan review – sharp-eyed follow-up to Exciting Times
Marriage is a dare and coupledom is complicated in this perceptive take on modern love