The four types of climate denier, and why you should ignore them all

The shill, the grifter, the egomaniac and the ideological fool: each distorts the urgent global debate in their own way, says the Guardian’s Environment editor, Damian Carrington

Bunker by Bradley Garrett review – building for the end times

Bulletproof backpacks and bomb shelters ... millions are preparing for doomsday. Is it a sane response?

The Mission House by Carys Davies – in EM Forster’s footsteps

In this fresh take on a familiar trope, a westerner conjures a vision of long-lost England in an Indian hill station

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson review – a dark study of violence and power

A renowned writer considers the social divisions in American society, many of them unacknowledged, using comparisons with India and Nazi Germany

Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes review – state-of-the-nation novel with a feminist heart

From the poll tax riots to the Scottish referendum, a fierce and funny portrait of Britain over the past three decades

Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen review – with Trump, there is no shared reality

Media failings and the methods of tyrants ... an original and piercing account of how the Trump presidency works, drawing on personal experience of Russia

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist review – Adrian Tomine’s memoir of a life in art

With wit and brutal honesty, Tomine examines the absurdity of the comic-book industry and his own fragile ego

Lana Del Rey’s poetry debut review – sometimes cliche, always solipsistic

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, released as an audiobook this week and in print in September, is a reminder of the singer’s strengths and shortcomings

Picture books for children – reviews

A sleep-deprived lion learns to unwind, Monsieur Roscoe provides a French lesson and a young girl cleans up a Caribbean beach

Intimations review – Zadie Smith’s life under lockdown

The novelist’s essays on living through coronavirus are at their best when pondering the day-to-day

Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg review – dark yet roguishly funny

A chorus of voices shed light on a student found dead in the woods in this sparkling reworking of the traditional thriller

Penguin Classics Science Fiction review – a fresh look at brave new worlds

Sci-fi preconceptions are challenged by little-known marvels

A Suitable Boy review – a very British, Indian period drama

It is beautiful, expensive and groundbreaking in its casting, yet Andrew Davies’s adaptation of Vikram Seth’s tome still feels uncomfortably old-school

In brief: Signs of Life; Against the Loveless World; Inland – review

A doctor’s journey of self-discovery, an eye-opening tale about a victimised woman and a magical reworking of the western

Small Pleasure by Clare Chambers review – suburbia’s silent sorrows

Clare Chambers deftly conjures pinched postwar lives – and a possible virgin birth