Broken Ghost by Niall Griffiths review – a profane, ecstatic prayer
A vision on a Welsh hillside launches a bold meditation on nature and the possibility of spiritual regeneration
In brief: The Wichita Lineman; How It Was; Breathe – reviews
Dylan Jones offers a vivid study of a timeless ballad
Rough Ideas by Stephen Hough review – polymath at the piano
The acclaimed musician muses on life, art and faith
Inland by Téa Obreht review – the wild west just got wilder
This exquisite frontier tale from the author of The Tiger’s Wife is a timely exploration of the darkness beneath the American dream
The Warehouse by Rob Hart review – tussles with a tech titan
A satirical tale of a near future dominated by a single power-hungry firm is gripping and cerebral
Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash by Walden Bello – review
A welcome critique of global finance is admirably angry but fails to properly identify the crisis brewing in Beijing
Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell review – fancy-free and 60
Reflections on midlife dating and female friendships
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Hauntings in the Highlands, plus a new Val McDermid
The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour review – our descent into a digital dystopia
A stark polemic argues that social media may have unleashed an age of nihilism from which there is little hope of escape
Benjamin Myers: ‘I got a taste for the macabre early on’
The prizewinning Durham-born writer on his latest novel – the story of a young man’s friendship with an older woman
Book clinic: can you recommend novels and nonfiction books about cats?
There are so many literary felines to savour
Kate Tempest review – this isn’t a gig, it’s a reckoning
The performance poet absorbs all of the uncertainty and anger of our times, and pours it into ferocious, apocalyptic music that both wounds and heals
Imperial Legacies by Jeremy Black review – whitewash for Britain’s atrocities
Rightwing identity politics that reject multiculturalism lie behind this attempt to relativise colonial excesses and rebut criticism of empire
This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev review – quietly frightening
Fake news and half truths create confusion, aiding the strongman and threatening democracy, this timely study argues
Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence review – unusual and thought-provoking
A 17-year-old girl explores her new freedom after leaving a religious sect in Lawrence’s richly empathetic third novel