Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review – Judy Blume adaptation is a winner

Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams are remarkable in a thoughtful and funny expansion of the seminal 1970s teen novel

Once Upon a Prime review – why maths and literature make a winning formula

Prof Sarah Hart’s exuberant study of the enduring conversation between mathematics and literature is fascinating

Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian review – the economic anarchy of Liz Truss’s dreams

This timely and important study of investment zones exposes the limitations of the experiments favoured by free-market fanatics

Work-Life Balance by Aisha Franz review – richly comic takedown of the wellness industry

This well-aimed tale of a self-obsessed therapist and her angsty clients nails the neuroticism of the digital age and its snake-oil remedies

August Blue by Deborah Levy review – double trouble in Greece

A doppelganger leads the way to suppressed secrets in the author’s wistful, fabular new novel

In brief: Honeybees and Distant Thunder; Cry of the Wild; Our Missing Hearts – review

A hit Japanese novel makes its debut in English, British wildlife comes vividly alive and an Asian American boy discovers his past in a harsh future

No Love Lost: The Selected Novellas of Rachel Ingalls review – short, strange, superb

The author of Mrs Caliban is revealed as a mistress of macabre and mysterious short fiction in this addictive new collection

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney review – secret shame and practical woodwork

The writer’s impressionistic second novel follows a pupil and teacher as they navigate the social codes of rural Ireland

Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll review – meticulous account of the Brighton bombing

This deftly constructed account of the IRA’s 1984 attempt to kill the prime minister leaves us with one insistent question: what would have happened if they had succeeded?

Reasonable Cause to Suspect by Sally Lane review – my son, the enemy of the state

A mother’s frank and heartfelt tale of trying to free her son – labelled ‘Jihadi Jack’ by the press – from a Kurdish jail is the stuff of nightmares

The Windsors at War by Alexander Larman review – rollicking account of the king, the duke and the Nazis

This riotous and engaging biography has it all: two brothers at each other’s throats, two wives who loathe each other, and the duke’s ill-advised visit to Germany

Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson review – voice of a generation

A collection of the radical poet’s writing charts a groundbreaking career chronicling the black British experience

One Day I Shall Astonish the World by Nina Stibbe audiobook review – friendship in little England

Stibbe evokes the interior thoughts of female friends in a portrait of a small town enlivened by Joanna Scanlan’s narration

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan; The Short End of the Sonnenallee by Thomas Brussig; Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia; Ada’s Realm by Sharon Dodua Otoo

Stuck Monkey by James Hamilton-Paterson review – our deadly addictions

A jeremiad on the modern habits that harm the planet, from golf to gardening