Russell Hoban: Turtle Diary; Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer; The Medusa Frequency – worth rejoicing in

The American writer’s first eight novels for adults have been reissued as Penguin Modern Classics, offering a banquet of whimsical delights

Field Work by Bella Bathurst review – a nuanced record of life at Rise Farm

This beautiful portrait of the people who keep farming alive today is part memoir, part social history

Real Estate by Deborah Levy review – a dialogue between art and life

The third of Levy’s memoirs, which sees her leaving home for a fellowship in Paris, is a drily funny contemplation of what it means to be a female writer

In brief: Fifty Sounds, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, This One Sky Day – reviews

A candid memoir in 50 entries, a darkly fantastical vision of post-Brexit Britain and a lush novel 15 years in the making

We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida review – an enigmatic coming-of-age mystery

Set in 1980s San Francisco, this evocative novel views disappearances in a wealthy suburb through the uncertain prism of adolescence

Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal review – Proustian evocation of the belle époque

The potter and memoirist’s exacting study of a Parisian family’s collection of art objects is an exquisite coda to The Hare With Amber Eyes

Second Place by Rachel Cusk review – psychodrama in the shape of a social comedy

Cusk’s puzzling reworking of a 1932 memoir by an American bohemian suggests she’s in creative limbo

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers review – identity parade

Jenn Shapland’s insistence on reducing Carson McCullers’s life story to a modish account of her sexuality makes no sense

Antitrust: Hawley and Klobuchar on the big tech battles to come

The Republican senator has written a sort of manifesto for the presidential primary. The Democrat seems focused on the supreme court

Male Tears by Benjamin Myers review – men at the margins

The emphasis is on atmospherics in these dark short stories from the author of The Gallows Pole

How to Love Animals by Henry Mance review – the case against modern farming

A series of investigations, presented with humour and humility, into our contradictory relationships with pets, livestock and wildlife

The Kidnapping Club and A Shot in the Moonlight reviews – slavery’s long shadow

Two books on the pre- and post-civil war New York and Kentucky deal with dark but also more hopeful episodes in US history

Permafrost by Eva Baltasar review – a wolf howl against drudgery and bad sex

In this Catalan bestseller, queerness is a salvation for the troubled narrator

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation review – reverently unrevealing

This documentary about two of the deep south’s most celebrated gay writers fails to illuminate their sometimes troubled friendship

The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin review – a heroic outsider

The charismatic Glasgow-born winger and indie music obsessive recalls his passions, and life in football before the riches arrived