The Laureate review – writers throuple up in sinisterly erotic literary thriller

The scandalous love triangle between poet Robert Graves, his feminist wife and a charismatic American writer is the subject of this erotic and entertainingly silly film

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece review – crying out for an editor

Tom Hanks’s underwhelming account of a Hollywood film production is a bland busman’s holiday

Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson review – dancing in Peckham

A teenage love story develops into an affecting meditation on the migrant experience in the follow-up to Open Water

The Rooster House by Victoria Belim review – secrets and lies in Ukraine

A woman’s quest to uncover her family’s difficult past reveals broader truths about the present conflict

One True Loves review – sassy love triangle romcom slathered in life lessons

Mercilessly photogenic melodrama saddled with faintly patronising shtick as Phillipa Soo has to choose between new fiance and returning husband thought to be dead

Picture books for children – reviews

Rose Tremain and JJ Bola become the latest novelists to turn their hands to writing for young children with tales about a magical metal bird and a boy overcoming his anger

Natural Light by Julian Bell review – the forgotten German artist who inspired Rembrandt and Rubens

This engrossing history explains why the extraordinary – and tiny – paintings of Adam Elsheimer, who died in poverty in 1610 aged only 32, were revolutionary

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece review – Tom Hanks’s ambitious, myth-busting novel

The actor’s tale about the creation of a fantasy film captures the humdrum of Hollywood but lacks his on-screen ability to breathe life into characters

The Lost Album of the Beatles review – deeply researched what-ifs

Daniel Rachel imagines what the next Beatles album might have been like, with painstaking detail and great stories

In brief: The Short End of the Sonnenallee; Oxblood; Because They Can Play F’cking Good Football – reviews

A pitch-perfect East German novel translated by Jonathan Franzen; a gripping tale of the Manchester underworld; and Erik ten Hag in verse

Tell Me How This Ends by Jo Leevers review – a sympathetic double act

The bond between a terminally ill woman and an oddball charity worker makes for a promising, pleasingly complex debut

Sparrow by James Hynes review – the last, lonely Roman writes

A fourth-century man finds himself alone and adrift in Britain in the last days of empire in a brutal, wonderful novel

The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant review – a many-stranded generational saga

The writer’s lively ninth novel, tracing a family’s journey from Latvia to Liverpool, explores the making of myth and history

The Seaside by Madeleine Bunting review – sea, sand… and deprivation

The author’s love of English coastal resorts shines through in this sharp and deeply moving study of the places that symbolise this country’s decline

Johnson at 10 review – ducking and diving with the PM who would be king

Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell’s impressive account of Boris Johnson’s chaotic reign lays bare a man utterly unfit to hold the highest office