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Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin review – from Vietnam to London

This powerful debut, longlisted for the Women’s prize, is a heartfelt portrayal of the Vietnamese refugee experience and the tolls of assimilation

A Private Spy audiobook review – the letters of John le Carré

David Harewood and Florence Pugh narrate this incisive collection, edited by the author’s son

The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

A Good House for Children by Kate Collins; White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link; The Curator by Owen King; The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone

Time to Think by Hannah Barnes review – inside Britain’s only clinic for trans children

The BBC Newsnight reporter looks at what led to the closure of the Tavistock Centre, and what it means to be transgender

Who Gets Believed? by Dina Nayeri review – the Kafkaesque ordeal faced by refugees

The author uses her first-hand experience of migration to examine the flaws and hypocrisies of the asylum system

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey review – cack-handed out-of-copyright horror

Pooh and Piglet are misogynist killers in this terrible horror version of AA Milne, a terrifying combination of not-scary and not-funny

The Bell of the World by Gregory Day review – an electric crescendo of Australian nature writing

The acclaimed author and poet has a long history writing about our relationship with place. His hypnotic new novel feels like a culmination, imploring us to listen

Orlando review – Tilda Swinton is magnetic in Sally Potter’s swoony reverie

Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s book remains trance-inducingly strange, stuffed full of style and stars

Deep Down by Imogen West-Knights review – grief and laughter

This immensely funny debut from the author behind the cult Twitter account @BougieLitWoman unravels the complicated tenderness and shared history of a brother and sister

The Norse Myths That Shape the Way We Think by Carolyne Larrington review – Thor blimey

From Tolkien to Marvel – a guide to ancient stories of Thor, Loki and Valhalla and their impact on modern culture

Cuddy by Benjamin Myers review – a visionary history

An Anglo-Saxon saint speaks down the centuries in a sensational piece of storytelling about Britain’s past and present

Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss review – on a wing and a prayer

A fascinating study of the fraught relationship between human beings and our feathered friends

The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane review – the lost boy

Otherworldly sunsets, family tensions and Aboriginal lore collide in a blazing mystery set in the colonial outback

The Patriarchs by Angela Saini review – the roots of male domination

A scientific and historical survey of patriarchy shows that there’s nothing inevitable about it

The Three Musketeers review – stripped-back stab at classic tries for fresh approach

Low-budget take on the evergreen tale already feels overshadowed by the grand French retelling due next door

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