Not My Type by E Jean Carroll review – memoir takes a hatchet to Trump
The writer’s account of the Trump trials is packed with revenge and barbed wit. She has little to hide
My perfect holiday reading, by Bernardine Evaristo, David Nicholls, Zadie Smith and more
From novels and short stories, to biography and history, leading authors recommend their favourite recent books and the ones they can’t wait to dive into
The best recent crime and thrillers – roundup
Fox by Joyce Carol Oates; A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor; Death of a Diplomat by Eliza Reid; Actually, I’m a Murderer by Terry Deary; Can You Solve the Murder? by Antony Johnston
Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie review – the joy of the hatchet job
Is giving an artist a one-star review an act of abuse? An influential theatre critic finds out in this smart story of #MeToo-era revenge
Hark by Alice Vincent audiobook review – a search for silence
A former music journalist’s exploration of how we listen is informed by her life-changing experience of motherhood
Wait Here by Lucy Nelson review – stories of childless women that are complex and wonderfully varied
Instead of reducing its characters to one-dimensional traits, this debut collection is a compassionate rendering of the many different ways to shape a family and a life
How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast review – Erica Jong’s daughter on the worst year of her life
In this frank, exposing memoir, Jong-Fast reflects on her dysfunctional upbringing as her family falls apart
The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael Warren review – a magical ornithological history of Britain
From buzzards in Oxfordshire to cranes in Kent – how once common birds left their mark in British place names
Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin review – privilege and race intersect in a fine debut
A young gay Black man escapes from grief into the hedonism of upper-echelon New York, in a lyrical tale of redemption
Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski review – some of the best sex scenes I’ve read this year
In this page-turning romance, teenage sweethearts reunite as thirtysomething women
Sanctuary by Marina Warner review – the power of stories in an age of migration
An ambitious meditation on the ability of narrative to shape our perceptions of one another and our experience of home
The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things
From Picasso to Joyce, we’re hopelessly in thrall to the fallacy of the all-conquering intellect. Or are we?
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine review – a polyphonic portrait of class and trauma in Belfast
The acclaimed short-story writer brings her characters vividly to life in this debut novel about a teenage girl’s assault and its aftermath
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
Awakened by Laura Elliott; Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab; Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang; Esperance by Adam Oyebanji; The Quiet by Barnaby Martin
A Trick of the Mind by Daniel Yon review – explaining psychology’s most important theory
An immensely readable dive into the ‘predictive processing’ hypothesis, our best guess as to how the mind really works