How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina review – a satire on modern India
In this savage cinematic caper about an academic fraudster, social commentary meets standup comedy
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn review – ‘Am I human?’
Shortlisted for the International Booker prize, this science-fiction satire on corporate language is a miracle of concision
A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi review – deep, subtle grace
The Zambian-born British poet explores colonial history, the origin of HIV and survivor’s guilt with a quiet power
The Life of Music review – pushing at the boundaries of the classical canon
Nicholas Kenyon’s wide-ranging survey of the development of western music is packed with his passion for the subject
Fun Home review – Alison Bechdel memoir-musical adaptation burrows its way into your heart
Behind the image of a picture-perfect family is a father’s torment and an artist’s attempt to grasp at the truth
Under the Wave at Waimea by Paul Theroux review – death, drugs and board games
A car accident knocks a sixtysomething surfer’s life off balance in the veteran travel writer and novelist’s intricate page-turner
Am I in the Right Place? by Ben Pester review – weird… and wonderful
Nothing is what it seems in this short story collection, in which family life and the workplace get dizzying new slants
The Pursuit of Love review – absolutely glorious
Emily Mortimer’s immaculate adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s bestseller about the madcap Radlett family is an instant classic. What a magnificent treat to tuck into
In brief: Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen, Bear and A Hundred Million Years and a Day – reviews
An American tale of culinary salvation, a 1970s feminist classic revisited, and a quest to claim a dinosaur fossil in the Alps
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne review – life and loves of a true original
Clever, funny and full of surprises, this true literary original leaps off the page in a wonderfully attentive biography
Speak, Okinawa review – a struggle to unearth a denied self
Elizabeth Miki Brina’s memoir about coming to terms with her Japanese-American heritage is warm and affecting
Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing review – free your body and your mind will follow
The Lonely City author explores Wilhelm Reich’s insights into the physical impact of emotional pain in a deft book of many parts
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – a moving account of a daughter’s sorrow
The novelist joins the list of great writers reflecting on loss with this eloquent meditation on her father’s death
Madoff Talks review: definitive life of an ‘extraordinarily evil’ man
Jim Campbell exchanged hundreds of emails and letters with the financier whose crimes brought him a 150-year sentence
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard review – a journey of passion and introspection
A root-and-branch study of the network that sustains our forests shows how all life is interconnected