A Good Man by Ani Katz review – a morbidly compelling debut

An all-American family man is the unreliable narrator in this dark study of toxic masculinity

Threshold by Rob Doyle review – a wild journey

This sly tale told against its author takes the reader on a destabilising voyage of discovery and self-disgust

Good Husbandry by Kristin Kimball review – a new life on a community farm

Sustainability and a love of the land are at the heart of a couple’s approach to farming. But grit and perseverance are essential

The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson review – strategies for eating in a world of change

The 21st-century diet consists of ‘unhealthy food, eaten in a hurry’. How did we enter this ‘food hell’?

The Doll by Ismail Kadare review – a fascinating study of difficult love

The Albanian author explores his relationship with his mother and bittersweet memories of home

A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind review – should we be delighted or terrified?

It has long been argued that workers will be replaced by machines, but now the threat is real. How will we bring about a revolution in both work and leisure?

Joan Didion’s The White Album review – kaleidoscopic view of the 60s brought to stage

Eerily beautiful show reveals frustrating fragmentation of writer’s classic essay

Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton review – 180 nail-biting minutes

The tension of a school siege is mingled with a meditation on the bonds of friendship

Square Haunting by Francesca Wade review – five women who changed history

A large-hearted and fascinating group biography of Virginia Woolf, Dorothy L Sayers and other residents of a London square between the wars

One of Us Is Next by Karen M McManus review – a thrilling sequel

The follow-up to high-school whodunnit One of Us Is Lying plays a dangerous game of truth or dare

Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr review – a masterpiece of self-exploration

A searching memoir from the late Guardian journalist, which lays bare her upbringing and the evisceration of her Scottish industrial town

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid – charming, authentic, entertaining

Money, class and race are incisively observed in a razor-sharp debut

Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur review – Mum’s little helper… with a difference

A daughter’s complicity in her mother’s secret adulterous affair is gruesomely fascinating

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins review – panic and pathos on the run from the cartel

An evocative novel of family disaster takes you inside the racing heart of a migrant’s story

Little Lulu: Working Girl by John Stanley review – riot girl in a little red dress

Seen, heard – and quite irresistible