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Clyde Fans by Seth review – heirs to a fading Canadian dream

Ten years in the making, Seth’s saga of two brothers tied to the family firm is a masterpiece

The Pillar by Stephen Gill review – lingers in the mind

Gill’s unearthly photographs of birds drawn to a pillar in a Swedish field mesmerise

Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors review – grisly gags at the Tower of London

Iffy insults fly, heads bounce around and the wiper of the king’s bottom takes a bow – all in the moat where alligators swam

Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini – review

How science sowed the seeds of racism

The Heavens by Sandra Newman review – voyage through an alternative reality

Sandra Newman’s genre-defying novel weaves dreams and delusion with romantic love

The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson review – when Coleridge met the Wordsworths

This investigation into the birth of the Romantic movement is the perfect marriage of poetry and place

In brief: Tiger; Critical; There There – reviews

Survival and redemption in the Siberian wilderness; tales from intensive care; and a bold debut about the Native American experience

Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor review – campy fun

Bram Stoker is involved in a love triangle with two giants of the Victorian stage in a humorous retelling of the Dracula author’s life

The Corner Shop by Babita Sharma review – fags, mags and family life

Sharma’s nuanced exploration of British Asian life behind the counter is human and engaging

The Victorians by Jacob Rees-Mogg review – ponderings in plodding prose

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s tribute to his idols of the Victorian age is trite, tedious and muddle-headed

Undressing by James O’Neill review – secrets of a man in a green anorak

A psychotherapist’s story of a patient who was afraid to remove his clothes is absorbing and moving

Book clinic: What can I give a child to help them with losing a parent?

Nonfiction and novels to support young people dealing with grief

Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels

Migrating hummingbirds, a chick at the circus and runaway robots getting into trouble

Plume by Will Wiles review – where satire meets surrealism

A mysterious column of smoke fills the London sky, in this stylish and funny tale about a journalist on the rocks

The Professor & the Parson by Adam Sisman review – a story of desire, deceit and defrocking

How an unlikely Casanova and blacklisted clergyman conned his way around the world

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