Car Crash by Lech Blaine review – a bruisingly insightful memoir of two wreckages
A tragic accident and its resulting trauma fuels this candid, thoughtful debut and examination of our tired ideas about manhood
On Wanting to Change review – an inspiring vision of psychoanalysis
Conversation rather than conversion is vital in the consulting room – is that the same for politics?
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne – the ‘modern Jane Austen’?
This excellent cradle-to-grave biography of a much loved novelist who goes in and out of fashion captures her alarming habits and tormented love affairs
Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon review – genial 60s British wacky-space-racers
Dated but good-humoured, this 1967 adaptation includes all the era’s popular elements, from villain Terry-Thomas to penny-farthings in haystacks
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova review – a family history
A compendious family scrapbook that tells the story of a turbulent century of Russian life
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez review – unsettling tales
A gripping collection that draws on the Argentinian military dictatorship to mix daylight horrors with supernatural shocks
The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz review – on the run in Nazi Germany
Eighty years on, this uncannily prescient tale of a Jewish businessman, forever travelling but going nowhere, is part John Buchan, part Franz Kafka
Young adult books roundup – review
World travel, daring dystopias and secondary school cliques frame timely YA outings
Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee review – seat-edge tension in Margate
A former Londoner and her family fight for survival in the seaside town of the future in a sparkling apocalyptic novel
Come Join Our Disease by Sam Byers review – gloriously nauseating
The faddish desires and moral certainties of modern life are dealt a hefty blow in this bold, unflinching novel about a true nihilist
In brief: Howul: A Life’s Journey; Revolutions; Thinking Again – reviews
David Shannon’s prose shines with sweet innocence, women cycle their way to freedom, and Jan Morris’s spry memoir captures the later days of an incredible life
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1918-38 review – priceless interwar gossip
Editor Simon Heffer brings us the first, sensationally unexpurgated volume of the musings of the Chicago-born socialite and social climber
Raceless; Brown Baby reviews – meditations on racial identity
Georgina Lawton recalls her search for the truth about her heritage, while Nikesh Shukla examines the trials of parenting in a racist world and coming to terms with his mother’s death
The Impossible Office?; The British Prime Minister in an Age of Upheaval reviews – power failures at No 10
Two timely books – by Anthony Seldon and Mark Garnett – make us think about what it takes to be a successful prime minister, and why so few have been up to the job
Beautiful Things by Hunter Biden review – the prodigal son and Trumpists’ target
The president’s son recounts his struggles and his father’s love with honesty – yet still seems blind to glaring political realities