Things I Learned from Falling review – desert hike, accident, no hope of rescue

In 2018 Claire Nelson took a lone hike in the desert. She shattered her pelvis in a fall and ran out of water. She has written a gripping account of her determination to survive

Fiction for older children reviews: from sleuths to woolly mammoths

Gripping yarns spring from a submerged city, desperate street life and the jungles of Sri Lanka

Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp – review

This life of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen, is a dispiriting read with unconvincing arguments about her influence on his work

All About Sarah by Pauline Delabroy-Allard review – love as an extreme sport

An intense affair between two women is brought to life with the simplest of literary means in the French writer’s enjoyable debut

Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit review – figuring out what stories to tell

The influential American writer’s memoir is less about soul-baring than the story of men’s attempts to silence women

In brief: Girl, Woman, Other; Damascus; Colombia Es Pasion – review

Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker-winning novel; a brutal exploration of the world of St Paul; Colombian cyclists overcoming the odds

Bina by Anakana Schofield review – admirable chutzpah

This spiky, metafictive tale of a woman working for an underground cause will keep you guessing

The Ox by Paul Rees review – the Who’s bass player behaving badly

A life of John Entwistle sidelines his musical virtues in favour of his egregious sins against women – not least his wife

Tribes by David Lammy review – absorbing analysis

David Lammy’s study of society’s divisions and how to deal with them asks all the right questions

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield by Christina Lamb review – the eternal war against women

This harrowing account of the thousands of rape victims airbrushed from history is required reading

MBS review: why Trump and the west took a pass on the Khashoggi killing

Ben Hubbard delivers a fine account of the crown prince’s rise – and how the murder of a journalist did not bring him down

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am review – as elegant as its subject

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s generous documentary is a fitting tribute to the late, great author

Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit review – memoir and male violence

The acclaimed feminist writer on her formative years, feeling silenced and the first room of her own – a light-filled flat in San Francisco

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré review – a tale to spark change

A 14-year-old girl is married off illegally in this debut novel by Nigerian-born author Abi Daré

The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha review – existential journeys

The Indonesian writer’s debut novel cleverly uses the choose-your-own-adventure form to explore travel and identity