Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner review – fascinating portrait of English repression
The marriage and social milieu of Princess Margaret’s childhood friend reveals a vanished era of upper-class eccentricity
The Girl With the Leica by Helena Janeczek review – a revolutionary life in pictures
This is a daring attempt to capture the life of Gerda Taro, the war photographer often overlooked as Robert Capa’s muse
The Windrush Betrayal by Amelia Gentleman and Homecoming by Colin Grant – review
Stories from the Windrush generation and a full exposé of the scandal that disgraced the Home Office
Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley review – folk horror goes back to the 70s
Hostile locals, grieving parents, a sinister oak: this addition to the canon of ‘English Weird’ has its origins in pastiche
Impeach review: Neal Katyal makes strong case against Donald Trump
The former acting solicitor general is a fine impeachment guide but he might want to rethink claiming not to be partisan
The best recent crime novels – review roundup
The Sound of Her Voice by Nathan Blackwell, Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver, The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis, Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee, The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
The Amber Light review – warming treatise on whisky’s liquid gold
This agreeable documentary combines the social history of drinking whisky with a tour of Scotland
An Economic History of the English Garden by Roderick Floud review – finance and flowers
Adding up the cost of England’s gardens … from Capability Brown to geraniums and neat lawns in the suburbs
Plagued By Fire by Paul Hendrickson – Frank Lloyd Wright, a life of disaster and disarray
Lawless love, brutal murder and extraordinary buildings in an overheated biography of the American architect
The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson review – stunning conclusion
Stories of alien invasion are rarely told from the perspective of the formerly colonised – this series set in a future Nigeria expands the SF genre
Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton review – the pioneering club of Dorothy L Sayers
A famous crime novelist, an am-dram star and ‘the Moss Side tigress’ in a tribute to female friendship
That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu review – a fresh and powerful debut
The first novel by Stormzy’s imprint, a coming-of-age story about a young black Londoner, is bleak yet tender
Dominion by Tom Holland review – the legacy of Christianity
An absorbing survey of Christianity’s subversive origins and enduring influence is filled with vivid portraits, gruesome deaths and moral debates
A Warning by Anonymous review – inside the Trump administration
A ‘senior Trump official’ exposes chaos in the bizarre court of King Donald and asks: ‘What to do next?’
Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits review – family ties
The sequel to A Weekend in New York gets inside the Essinger clan’s heads for an enforced family gathering