The Durrells review – a welcome vacation from our island of nightmares
It’s one last push for the cockle-warming Corfu Brits as a barn owl, an ‘idle walrus’ and the ever-wonderful Keeley Hawes kick off the drama’s final series
In brief: Washington Black; The Men on Magic Carpets; This Paradise – reviews
A flying machine takes a slave around the world in Esi Edugyan’s Booker-shortlisted tale and Ed Hawkins goes in search of superhuman hippies
The Gospel According to Lazarus review – miraculous page-turner
Richard Zimler reimagines events up to the crucifixion with Lazarus at its heart
A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther review – dysfunction among the upper classes
A novel captures the brutality of aristocratic tradition
Island Song by Madeleine Bunting review – wartime family secrets
Exploring the moral complexities of occupation
Pet Sematary review – disinterred and definitely shaken
This second attempt at a big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s dark tale of a family pet rising from the dead mixes things up to chilling effect
Michael Tippett: The Biography by Oliver Soden review – exhaustively researched, lovingly detailed
The composer’s colourful life is the focus of an epic tribute
Annie Ernaux: ‘I was so ashamed for Catherine Deneuve…’
The French writer on her singular memoir being longlisted for the Man Booker international prize and why #MeToo has her backing
Book clinic: what will I love as much as Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends?
Sadie Jones recommends novels dealing with infidelity
Gilded Youth by James Brooke-Smith review – privilege, rebellion and the British public school
From Shelley to dandies to Orwell (perhaps) … public schools have produced rebels as well as shoring up elitism
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Witch by Rebecca Tamás; Near Future by Suzannah Evans; O Positive by Joe Dunthorne; Discipline by Jane Yeh
The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag review – gruesome Swedish thriller
A debut vividly depicts acts of cruelty in lawless 18th-century Stockholm – but are its shocks gratuitous?
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr review – a poignant debut novel
Twin narratives of internment during the second Boer war and a 21st–century training camp, from the author of the memoir Maggie and Me
The Hill to Die On review: Trump, Ryan and a Republican dumpster fire
Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer deliver a deeply sourced tale of ineptitude, cowardice and other common political traits
Riding in the Zone Rouge by Tom Isitt and The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman by Harry Pearson – review
A race through the Somme battlefields in 1919 and bone-shaking tours in Flanders – two books capture the blood, sweat and tears side of cycling