The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen review – confessions of a literary outsider

The Danish writer reflects on success, addiction and divorces in three volumes of compulsive autofiction: Childhood, Youth and Dependency

Me by Elton John review – hilariously self-lacerating

A memoir that is racy, pacy and crammed with scurrilous anecdotes – what more could you ask from the rocket man?

What Happened? by Hanif Kureishi – review

Hanif Kureishi returns with musings on race, sex and politics – plus the odd showbiz chum

A Puff of Smoke by Sarah Lippett review – growing pains

Sarah Lippett’s wonderfully drawn memoir of a serious childhood illness is moving and inspiring

The Triumph of Injustice review – how to wrest control from multinationals

Two economists advocate a radical approach to reducing inequality

Grand Union by Zadie Smith review – wisdom, heart… but an uneven collection

The best of these funny short stories channel the author’s ‘smart-arsery’ and intellectual anxiety

Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen review – ghosts, comedy and a touch of Spark

Bowen’s short stories from the 1920s to the 40s shimmer with a world just out of reach

Attlee and Churchill review – a deft account of a terrific double act

This excellent study of two British political titans underlines the inadequacies of today’s leaders

Charlotte Wood captures the feminist zeitgeist again in The Weekend

A more domesticated sister to the wild, zeitgeist-capturing The Natural Way of Things, The Weekend distils the qualities that built Wood an admiring readership

In brief: The Giver of Stars; Letters from an Astrophysicist; The Pianist of Yarmouk – reviews

The story of a 30s horseback library in Kentucky, correspondence with a cosmologist, and the memoir of a Palestinian refugee in Syria

Akin by Emma Donoghue review – Room author loses her spark

The bestselling author falls flat with this second world war mystery set in the south of France

Food Or War by Julian Cribb review – a stark choice and a bleak outlook

The science writer’s warnings of global hunger are compelling and his solutions are intriguing, if naive

Face It by Debbie Harry; Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith – review

Highly contrasting memoirs from two female icons of 70s New York are equally compelling

Antisocial review: Andrew Marantz wades into the alt-right morass

The New Yorker writer’s depiction of online extremists and techno-utopians is compelling, alarming … and flawed

Time Lived, Without Its Flow by Denise Riley review – stunning clarity

A precise examination of parental grief and a rich Selected Poems from the poet philosopher