Meanwhile in Dopamine City by DBC Pierre review – the evils of the internet

Characters are tethered to a virtual world of surveillance and misinformation in an exhausting satire on technology

Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger review – philosophy’s great decade?

The story, told with free-wheeling gusto, of four German thinkers – Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein – before the dark decade of the 1930s

Charlotte Holmes: Adventure Box review – whodunnit for kids is a treat

This ingeniously designed mystery game is a summer escape made with wonder and wellbeing at its heart

Sisters by Daisy Johnson review – too close for comfort

The darkly riveting relationship between teenage siblings is explored in a gothic tale from the Booker-shortlisted author

Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett review – the new doom boom

A study of bunker sites and the people preparing for the worst couldn’t be better timed

Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun review – sketchy portrait of the artist

A journalist’s attempt to reconstruct the life of the Parisian artist and muse through an old address book glitters but lacks real curiosity

Hidden Hand review – China’s true global ambitions exposed

Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg’s startling book about how the Chinese Communist party has spread its tentacles throughout the world is vital reading

Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand – Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family

The scampish prince and his duchess definitely have a story to tell, but it is not the story in this book

The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon review – vibrant comic classic

A perfectly pitched novel about a group of West Indian friends attempting to buy a house together in 1960s London

The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes review – a trespasser’s radical manifesto

The land belongs to us all! A skilful writer and illustrator explores out-of-bounds country estates and identifies his enemies

A Saint from Texas by Edmund White review – a delicious, salacious romp

Edmund White’s tale of twin sisters fleeing 50s Texas, one to a convent, the other to a glitzy life in Paris, is full of Proustian insight

In brief: The Good Sharps; The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle; Fey’s War – review

A beguiling biography of a prominent 18th-century family; the tale of two strait-laced brothers on the European grand tour; and a mother’s struggle with the Nazis

Blindness review – blazing pandemic tale is brilliantly too close for comfort

José Saramago’s timely, sinister story of a world in chaos reopens the theatre after lockdown and is narrated with savage rage by Juliet Stevenson

Must I Go by Yiyun Li review – like stumbling across a cache of personal papers

Li’s novel tracing the roots of a daughter’s tragic death has hard-nosed insights but sometimes lacks momentum

The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood review – an acerbic must-read

An unexpected journey from celebrity interviewer to single mother is never less than candid and funny