Sex and Lies by Leïla Slimani review – exploring secret lives

The Moroccan-born writer of Lullaby returns to north Africa to explore sex, pornography and hypocrisy

To All the Boys: PS I Still Love You review – entertaining romcom sequel

Lara Jean finds that dating her dream boyfriend isn’t as blissful as she expected in To All the Boys I Loved Before follow-up

Flora and fauna loom large as authors incorporate issues around the climate crisis

Does speaking more than one language alter your brain? The findings from a lifetime of research are revelatory

In a penetrating and entertaining memoir, the Guardian’s former intelligence reporter exposes the folly of excessive state secrecy

A restless librarian is an insightful narrator of the climate crisis and political upheaval in the US

A satirical swipe at the aristocracy, Marlon James’s vicious African fantasy, and a vital rejection of racism

These sprightly tales by a rediscovered star of the Harlem Renaissance tackle race and love gone bad

A young boy’s sleuthing illuminates the grim realities of Indian slum life in an endearing, engaging debut

In this gossipy, insightful memoir, biographer Deirdre Bair recalls how she won the trust of two famously guarded writers

Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng deliver gossip as well as the goods from behind the scenes of our national reality show

John Bercow was a reforming Speaker, but is often blind to his own flaws in this verbose and wrathful memoir

From Jane Austen to medical memoirs, books that will help leave thoughts of the office behind

Youthful radicals shed their convictions in a novel that moves between Thatcher’s Britain and the present

What lurks beneath? Swimming and sinister stories in a thrilling ancestral quest to Lakes Ohrid and Prespa