Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux review – supermarket blues

The Nobel laureate’s diaristic reflections on retail leave much to be desired

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa review – high-risk comic debut

Stephen Buoro’s tale of a teenager in Nigeria, hanging with his friends and hankering after white girls, ticks all the boxes of a literary blockbuster

How Westminster Works … and Why It Doesn’t by Ian Dunt review – a savage indictment of the status quo

This eye-opening analysis of the British way of governing reveals a system set up for failure

A House for Alice by Diana Evans review – a follow-up with fire and fury

London life after Grenfell is powerfully portrayed in this sequel-of-sorts to Ordinary People

The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen review – when hope fails

A remarkable meditation on friendship, success, madness and violence that refuses to oversimplify

Plot by Claudia Rankine review – the lives of mothers

The award-winning author of Citizen turns her mind to the complexities of balancing art and parenting

Loving Highsmith review – Ripley author tribute soft-pedals writer’s nasty side

Ostensibly about the relationships of the celebrated novelist, this documentary is coy about Patricia Highsmith’s obsessiveness and antisemitism

Greek Lessons by Han Kang review – loss forges an intimate connection

An elegant translation of the South Korean writer’s 2011 novel explores how a teacher losing his sight and a pupil losing her voice form a poetic bond

The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts review – addiction and escape in the Ozarks

The author’s search for her childhood friend who shared her dreams of fleeing Clinton, Arkansas, is an elegiac story of lost opportunities

Divided by Annabel Sowemimo review – the roots of racism in medicine

From the treatment of BAME patients historically to the disproportionate number of Covid deaths, this important study by an NHS doctor exposes discrimination in healthcare

In brief: Games and Rituals; Friendaholic; The Women Who Saved the English Countryside – reviews

Katherine Heiny’s sparky, bittersweet tales of love; Elizabeth Day’s generous memoir about friendship; and a fastidious study of four nature campaigners

Rosewater by Liv Little review – a lyrical love affair

The gal-dem founder’s debut is an intensely moving evocation of hard-won romance, found family and peril, laced with humour and poetry

Five Times Faster by Simon Sharpe review – a radical but realistic path to net zero emissions

A former civil servant makes a persuasive case for dropping economy-wide emissions targets and focusing on tipping points where green technologies become affordable

Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson review – 50 years of rhyme and rage

The poet’s collection of essays, an archive of social and racial flashpoints, pay tribute to the Caribbean artists whose radicalism shaped his verse

The God Desire by David Baddiel review – not quite losing my religion

The comedian’s attempt to reconcile his lack of faith with his Jewish identity places him in an intriguing position in an often polarised debate