Who Am I Again? by Lenny Henry review – a raw, touching memoir

The comic reflects on prejudice, being a ‘political football’ and his suspicion he’s neither black enough nor manly enough

Deep River by Karl Marlantes review – an epic tale of migrant struggle

This massive saga about Finnish immigrants in early 20th-century America combines fascinating detail with overlong narration

Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone, Vol Three by Charles Moore – review

The final volume of this monumental biography is gripping and revealing but fails to grapple with Thatcher’s uneasy legacy

The best recent thrillers roundup – review

A workplace affair that ends in murder, neighbourly obsessions, the horrors of life on the street. Plus a new case for Jack Reacher

Equal: A Story of Women, Men and Money by Carrie Gracie – review

The BBC journalist’s important account of her struggle to win equal pay is full of sound advice for women

Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson review – sharp and sensitive

Band dynamics and debauchery share centre stage in the singer’s sharp, honest account of Suede’s rise and fall

The Cockroach by Ian McEwan review – a Brexit farce with legs

Ian McEwan’s scabrous satire, in which an insect is transformed into the PM, is a comic triumph

In brief: Ian McKellen: The Biography; The Jewel; Five Days of Fog – review

A definitive account of the thespian’s career, an atmospheric story of art and artifice, and a 1950s thief has second thoughts

The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball review – the unkindness of strangers

The hotly tipped American novelist’s vision of a society stripped of empathy is lucid and horrific

The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie review – portrait of a paradox

The received image of Byron is decisively reframed

A Short History of London by Simon Jenkins – review

The columnist gets personal – especially about 1960s architects – in this accessible history of the capital

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer review – a life-changing book

Warning: Jonathan Safran Foer’s compelling new book will alter your relationship to food for ever…

Brett Kavanaugh and the supreme court: here comes trouble

As the justices reconvene for a term that may even include an impeachment trial, two books fire opening shots that miss

Shelf Life by Livia Franchini review – an arresting, lyrical debut

A shopping list provides the structure for this beautiful and chilling novel, which unravels a relationship doomed by toxic masculinity

Tastes of Honey by Selina Todd review – Shelagh take a bow

Shelagh Delaney put working-class women centre-stage for the first time. This thoughtful book argues for the originality and importance of the Salford playwright