The best recent thrillers – review roundup

Boy meets girl in the woods, a wedding turns bloody, and two cold cases come dramatically back to life

The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts review – original and compelling

This fascinating account of Siberia’s horrific legacy is told with great verve

The South Korean writer weaves a metaphysical detective story with immense skill

Based on the true-life friendship of two men whose daughters were killed in the Middle East, this novel buoys the heart

The long-awaited final part of the Booker-winning trilogy is a masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches

Director and co-writer Matteo Garrone embraces the grotesqueness and sentimentality of Collodi’s 1883 story

A memoir by the Young Vic’s artistic director, a love affair in 1980s Poland, and the trials of a hard-drinking London hack

Jean Kwok draws on her family history in a pacy novel about a woman’s hunt for her missing sister

The Virago publisher is eloquent and inspiring on writing – but her memoir lacks grit and gossip

An academic’s argument for policy that bridges the left-right divide

The Meek’s Cutoff director returns with a distinctive story about a pair of drifters trying to make money by stealing milk from a newly-arrived cow

Novelist Sadie Jones recommends the best books to elicit empathy by stealth

Marguerite Duras is a nurse running from her past in this moving tale of village secrets and romance in the south of France

The imaginary realms of the Brontë sisters offer an escape from Victorian constraints in a graphic novel that blurs fiction and memoir

A memoir and fervent call to arms from a key leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, written with Jason Y Ng