Fracture by Andrés Neuman review – truth bombs
A Hiroshima survivor confronts his past in this timely novel about trauma and recovery
Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý review – a tornado of voices and timelines
A Swedish cellist’s encounter with a homeless junkie stirs memories of his own troubled youth in this radical short novel
In brief: Au Revoir, Tristesse; The Lightness; Chanel’s Riviera – review
A hymn to chic French writers, a debut novel combining meditation and mirth, and the dark side of 30s socialites
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by AN Wilson review – uncomfortable insights
While exploring Dickens’s monsters and damaged children, AN Wilson takes the opportunity to exorcise a demon from his own boyhood
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty review – miraculous memoir
There are echoes of the great WH Hudson in an autistic teenager’s intimate reflections on the complex pleasures of immersion in nature
The Deviant’s War: superb epic of Frank Kameny and the fight for gay equality
Eric Cervini’s story of one man’s struggle touches on many others and leaves the reader wanting 500 pages more
The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah review – why people wander
This fascinating study finds that the urge to migrate is in our genes
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Touched by Alan Buckley; Passport to Here and There by Grace Nichols; Tongues of Fire by Seán Hewitt; Later Emperors Evan Jones
Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý review – a musical journey
A cellist revisits his troubled teenage years in this polyphonic portrait of Europe’s underbelly
The Lockhart Plot by Jonathan Schneer review – the British government v Lenin
The rollicking story of how a maverick British envoy to the Bolshevik regime assisted in a couner-revolutionary plot to bring down Lenin
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree review – magic realism in Iran
After the 1979 Islamic revolution, a bereaved family seek solace in the ancient forests of northern Iran, in Shokoofeh Azar’s International Booker-shortlisted novel
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason review – rich pleasures
From the street fighter set up for a fall to a balloonist who encounters a hole in the sky, these short stories offer the nutrition of a novel at a tenth of the length
War for Eternity by Benjamin R Teitelbaum review – starstruck by Steve Bannon?
A US scholar speaks to global far-right figures and argues that they are linked by an obscure philosophy, traditionalism
Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract by Richard Atkinson review – ‘genealogy is addictive’
A ‘time-travelling commuter’ researches his ancestors, and unearths a fascinating 18th-century tale, which centres on a renowned slave holder, and a family feud
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett review – a twin’s struggle to ‘pass’ for white
The author of The Mothers brings fresh sensitivity to the subject of African Americans ‘passing’ in this engrossing novel