A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead review – a riveting tale of resistance in Turin

A gripping narrative of four extraordinary women who delivered intelligence, letters and weaponry in the cause of resisting the German occupation of Italy

The Faculty of Indifference by Guy Ware review – dry comedy of counter-terrorism

Ordinary life is a terrifying prospect in this existential satire about a London spook

Burned by Sam McBride review – the inside story of the ‘cash for ash’ scandal

A compelling exposé of blunders and sleaze with implications for the election and Northern Ireland’s future in the UK

Oligarchy by Scarlett Thomas review – the perils of privilege

Bluebeard meets boarding-school comedy in a cruelly funny satire of class and eating disorders

Bowie’s Books and Why Bowie Matters review – a manic turnover of new ideas

David Bowie has been canonised, and his cultural enthusiams are obsessed over. John O’Connell and William Collins appreciate his pick’n’mix habits, but have they forgotten the music?

Time for Lights Out by Raymond Briggs review – disorienting and plangent

The great author and illustrator of Father Christmas and Gentleman Jim tells his melancholy life story

Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig review – an entertaining journey

Humour and anger underpin the Bake Off star’s memoir

Little Wimmin review – off-kilter cocktail of am-dram and anarchy

Their tongues firmly in their cheeks, Figs in Wigs’ boisterous parody ranges from pun-filled comedy skits to cocktail-making in hazmat suits

Lake Like a Mirror by Ho Sok Fong review – beguiling

The place of women in Malaysia’s strict Muslim society is explored through dream-like narratives and striking imagery

I’ll Be Your Mirror by Lou Reed review – bard of New York’s dirty boulevards

The late musician’s collected lyrics reveal a singular songwriter capable of tenderness, nihilism and everything in between

Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V Banerjee and Esther Duflo review – methodical deconstruction of fake facts

Two Nobel winners’ down-to-earth diagnosis of global ills is enlightening but fails to address capitalism’s fatal flaws

In Brief: Rabbits for Food; Nazi Wives; Wakenhyrst – review

A writer’s spell in a psychiatric hospital and the women at the top in Hitler’s Germany

Oligarchy by Scarlett Thomas review – Malory Towers with menaces

Scarlett Thomas’s red-hot streak of invention continues

Priests de la Resistance! review – celebrating clerical wartime heroism

A stirring compendium of the lives of clergy who stood up to Hitler

The Killing in the Consulate by Jonathan Rugman review – a dark fable of unaccountable power

This detailed account of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder exposes the dark heart of the Saudi regime