The best recent thrillers – review roundup

A pitch-black outback noir; a missing teenager and her devious friends; the return of SJ Watson; and India’s first female detective

False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg; Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger – review

Two prominent ‘lukewarmers’ take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at best

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart review – lithe, revelatory debut

Heart-rending novel set in 1980s Glasgow is deservedly on the Booker longlist

The best recent poetry – review roundup

My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long; Moving House by Theophilus Kwek; Road Trip by Marvin Thompson; After Fame by Sam Riviere

Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O’Donoghue review – art, female collaboration and identity

A witty and insightful portrait of an aspiring film-maker is submerged in a plotty mystery

Summer by Ali Smith review – clear-sighted finale to a dazzling quartet

The last in Smith’s series of seasonal novels explores politics, pandemic and the possibility of forgiveness

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer review – dusk falls on Twilight saga

This plodding retelling of the first book from Edward’s perspective is a 750-page exercise in toothless tedium

Act of Grace by Anna Krien review – a hugely impressive first novel

The journalist and poet follows her flawed characters from Iraq to Australia in brilliant, indelible images

The Museum of Whales You Will Never See by A Kendra Greene – review

Iceland’s idiosyncratic museum collections – from rocks to sea monsters – provoke delightful reflections from an American artist and essayist

The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy review – aching, poignant and pressing debut

The dreamy, slippery novel melds adventure with climate fiction as its protagonist follows the last remaining Arctic terns on their final migration amid mass extinction

The Book in the Cathedral by Christopher de Hamel review – adventures of a manuscript sleuth

A brilliant manuscript scholar delves into the mystery of Thomas Becket’s jewelled book of psalms

I Give It to You by Valerie Martin review – an Italian summer

A novel of philosophical and creative inquiry, cleverly plotted and packed with great characters

A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne review – an ambitious era-hopping epic

Characters are reincarnated as a visionary craftsman explores his destiny in a story that roams from ancient Rome to Elizabethan London and beyond

An American Uprising in Second World War England by Kate Werran – review

How a fight between GIs in Cornwall introduced the British to American-style racism and, for a while, became a focal point of global race politics

Spoon-Fed by Tim Spector review – food myths busted

Are coffee and salt so bad for us? Are calorie counts on menus worthwhile? An experts explains why so much of what we’re told about food is wrong