In brief: Troy; Home Stretch; Three Hours – reviews

Stephen Fry gives fresh life to classical myth, Graham Norton engrosses with his new novel and Rosamund Lupton compels with a school-shooting thriller

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture review – superb history of Haiti

An outstanding study of how ‘the first black superhero of the modern age’ led the world’s only successful slave revolution

To the End of the World by Rupert Everett review – witty memoir of a Wilde life

In a sharp, scabrous account of his lifelong love of Oscar, the actor again proves himself a masterly writer

I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke review – chapter and verse

This riveting memoir of the Salford dandy’s ascent to national treasuredom charms with tales of heroin and Sugar Puffs

The Man Who Ran Washington review: James Baker as Republican titan from an age long gone

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser are superb on the ‘Velvet Hammer’, who served Reagan and the Bushes but also reached across the aisle

The best recent poetry collections – review roundup

Runaway by Jorie Graham; It Says Here by Sean O’Brien; The Problem of the Many by Timothy Donnelly; and The Perfect Nine by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The SS Officer’s Armchair by Daniel Lee review – the life of an ‘ordinary Nazi’

The compelling story of tracking down the secrets of a ‘desk murderer’ and confronting his family with his crimes

A Lover’s Discourse by Xiaolu Guo review – cross-cultural echoes

The story of a Chinese woman in London becomes a meditation on language and desire

What Were We Thinking review: Carlos Lozada on why Trump books matter

The Washington Post critic read 150 Trump books, somehow stayed sane and wrote an elegant yet lacerating response

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh review – meandering murder mystery

Is it a thriller, a psychological drama or dark comedy? The answer remains as unclear as the narrative in this followup to My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Labours of Love by Madeleine Bunting review – a humbling book about care

Care, paid and unpaid, is at the heart of society, now more than ever ... this is a moving and absorbing in-depth investigation

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason review – an incredibly funny and devastating debut

In the hands of its acerbic narrator – dealing with a crushing mental illness – even the darkest material is handled lightly, and is all the more powerful for it

The Nine Lives of Pakistan by Declan Walsh review – first-rate reportage

The acclaimed correspondent captures a country torn apart by military aggression and religious extremism, and tries to work out why he was expelled

Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes review – rescuing women in Greek myths

Helen of Troy, Aphrodite, Medea ... putting women centre stage in an enjoyable, witty look at the ways in which their stories have been changed over time

The Abstainer by Ian McGuire review – ‘The Wire by gaslight’

A gripping revenge thriller from the author of The North Water about the 19th-century struggle between Manchester police and Irish nationalists