Dodge City by Patrick deWitt review – a wild draft-dodging road trip

This tale of a 60s college dropout driving across the US to avoid being sent to Vietnam is committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice

Verity review – erotic thriller leaves teethmarks as Dakota Johnson goes back to Fifty Shades territory

Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett co-star in this unconvincing mystery about a struggling writer who is asked to ghostwrite for a bestselling author

From cordon bleu to pasta and pies: the best autumn cookbooks for 2026 – reviewed

Felicity Cloake’s must-reads of the season

Dèy by Edwidge Danticat review – motherhood and trauma in Miami

The first novel in over a decade from the acclaimed Haitian-American author lacks the power of earlier works

On the Equality of All Things by Carlo Rovelli review – a physicist’s guide to life, the universe and everything

Near-mystical musings from a scientist who believes we are on the brink of a revolution in understanding ourselves

The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order

A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach

Stations by Louise Kennedy review – a superb follow-up to Trespasses

This tale of broken hearts and broken people moves from the Troubles of 1980s Northern Ireland to an unforgiving London of squats and payphones

I Can’t Tell You But I Will by Magda Szubanski review – an insightful, elegant, anti-celebrity memoir

Szubanski’s latest book delves into both her mother’s decline, and her triumphant fight for marriage equality

Range by Dorthe Nors review – an astrophysicist at odds with reality

In the Danish writer’s latest novel, an eminent scientist withdraws to the countryside

Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 by David Kynaston review – a tour de force of popular history

From the Beatles and the World Cup to racism and homophobia, the latest instalment in Kynaston’s series captures a society in the throes of change

Tru review – a five-star performance of a three-star script about the life of Truman Capote

Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s 85-minute monologue and Paul Farnsworth’s immersive set deserve better than a Broadway museum piece text on the Breakfast At Tiffany’s author

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley; The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett; Cold Sunset by William Boyd; The Occidental Book of the Dead by T Geronimo Johnson and The Last Tenant by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

Can’t Get You Out of My Head by Michael Cragg review – what’s the secret of Kylie’s genius?

The pop star emerges as a great unifier in this in-depth yet heartfelt portrait of an Aussie icon

Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty review – Big Little Lies sequel shoots for high drama but fails to deliver

At 400-plus pages, Moriarty’s follow-up is too long and offers too little reward, with menopause, vaping teens and even a stalker failing to raise the stakes

Three Men in a Boat review – quirky novella makes for perky, fun-forward theatre

A rag puppet Montmorency, a fake moustache and an aria for reeking cheese add to the mischief of Jerome K Jerome’s very English story