The Parisian by Isabella Hammad review – accomplished debut
An engaging hero’s journey through the end of the Ottoman empire to the rise of Palestinian nationalism
If We Can Keep It review: how Trump happened and how America might survive
Michael Tomasky considers how it came to this – a president and his followers damned as liars but staying safe in power
Show Them a Good Time by Nicole Flattery review – short story debut
Young women struggle with failure and disappointment in a dark yet funny collection
The Language of Birds by Jill Dawson review – a novel based on an unsolved crime
A fictional account of the murder of Sandra Rivett, nanny of Lord Lucan’s children
Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels
A superhero snail, bibliophile bunnies, a story about grief filled with folkloric menace and more
The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack by HM Naqvi review – nostalgic fictionalised memoir
Set in seedy modern Karachi, this conjures a lost city of jazz, cabarets and hard drinking Soviet delegates
Airhead by Emily Maitlis review – up close with Trump and the Dalai Lama
The chief presenter of BBC Newsnight vividly chronicles the pains of perils of news television
We Need to Talk About Putin and Putin v the People review – a gut-level patriot
Putin has convinced many Russians that he has raised their country from its knees. But for how much longer, ask these two books, by Mark Galeotti and by Samuel A Greene and Graeme B Robertson
EL James’s The Mister – turns out books and sex can be this bad
A coked-up lord bonks a trafficked Albanian immigrant as the Fifty Shades of Grey author swaps BDSM for dispiritingly creepy power games
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered review – a transformation in our understanding
Colour, speed, how they ate ... our knowledge of dinosaurs has undergone a revolution, as this expert survey makes clear
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd review – high-camp crime
A pipe-smokin’, crypt-crashin’ heroine brings originality and freshness to this Victorian detective drama
The Last Leonardo by Ben Lewis review – secrets of the world’s most expensive painting
How much of the famous Salvator Mundi did Leonardo paint? And where is the $450m picture now?
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams review – a smart and breezy debut
A Londoner’s low self-esteem leads to a series of ill-advised flings in an amusing first novel
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr review – the lure of novel ideas
The journalist and author’s compelling guide to creative writing reveals how our brains are wired to respond to narratives
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem review – high-wire allegory
A student goes missing in the Californian wilderness during Trump’s inauguration…