We Still Have Words review – two fathers come to terms with terror

Georges Salines lost his daughter in the Bataclan terror attack in Paris, while Azdyne Amimour’s son was one of the killers. Their conversation makes a powerful book

In brief: Juve!; The Heavens; The Beloved Children – reviews

Herbie Sykes tackles an Italian football great, Sandra Newman proffers a gripping time-slip romance, and Tina Jackson conjures a fairytale of wartime London

Let’s Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood by Jasper Rees – review

This profile of the astute observer of domesticity is warm-hearted and full of detail

(R)evolution by Gary Numan review – electro-pop’s heart-on-sleeve godfather

Numan’s entertaining and often poignant life story is refreshingly uncool

Joe Biden: American Dreamer by Evan Osnos review – enter the sympathiser-in-chief

This portrait of the president-elect reveals Biden’s flaws but also the virtues to start America’s healing process

Going for Broke: The Rise of Rishi Sunak by Michael Ashcroft review – too perfect to be plausible

If this biography is to be believed, the chancellor is a clever charmer without flaws or enemies

What You Could Have Won by Rachel Genn review – a toxic relationship

A study of fame, drugs and co-dependency, with a protagonist inspired by Amy Winehouse

The Moth and the Mountain by Ed Caesar review – bonkers but beautiful

The extraordinary story of how a man with no experience of flying or mountaineering flew himself to Everest and joined the race to the top of the world

The best recent science fiction and fantasy – review roundup

The Evidence by Christopher Priest; The Thief on the Winged Horse by Kate Mascarenhas; Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims; Witch Bottle by Tom Fletcher; These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

The Art of the Glimpse edited by Sinead Gleeson review – 100 Irish short stories

A gloriously varied collection that gives voice to the forgotten and overlooked as well as the famous and familiar

Sylvia Pankhurst by Rachel Holmes review – an inspirational biography

The sorrows and passions of the visionary suffragette and socialist who ‘roused’ London

Life After Truth by Ceridwen Dovey review – lifestyles of the remarkably privileged

A safe and disappointingly domesticated outing for the author of In the Garden of the Fugitives, despite the nods to Trump’s America

The Lonely Century by Noreena Hertz review – our need for community

Being alone can be damaging to your health –lessons for No 10 in the era of lockdown and beyond

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins review – ingenious, overblown fantasy

The follow-up to The Binding is an ambitious melange of genres heavily indebted to Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game

The Upswing review – can Biden heal America?

America remains divided, but this study by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett points out that it has emerged before from an era of inequality and partisanship. Can it again?