The Woman in White review – the Victorian classic updated for the #MeToo era

This latest Wilkie Collins adaptation strikes a very modern note while hanging on to the original’s gothic creepiness

In brief: Balancing Acts; Francis I; The Fire Court

Behind the scenes at the National Theatre, the life Francis I of France, and murder on the streets of London after the Great Fire

Gun Love review – trigger-happy in Trump’s America

Jennifer Clement’s novel about a trailer-park teen on a surreal journey across a gun-crazed land is superbly told

Property by Lionel Shriver review – assured and entertaining

Shriver brings her deadpan skills to a brilliant collection of stories about owning – and being owned

The Leavers by Lisa Ko – review

Ko’s wrenching debut novel about an immigrant Chinese mother and her son has profound resonances that reach far beyond its setting

A Higher Loyalty by James Comey – review

While spilling the beans on Trump, the ex-FBI director portrays himself as both high-minded and willing to share his own pratfalls

Lucy Cooke: ‘I loved to drink, smoke and have a good time. Getting cancer at 45 marked an end to that’

The zoologist talks about how breast cancer was a positive experience for her, and how she’s now a lot healthier thanks to the joys of gardening

Book clinic: do editors often have to cut authors down to size?

Overwriting is a common problem among beginners, but it happens to the best of them – ask a professional editor

Rosie by Rose Tremain review – a tale of two unloved daughters

The novelist refuses to give her mother a free pass, yet isn’t sorry for herself, in this memoir jangling with grievance

Circe by Madeline Miller review – myth, magic and single motherhood

A nymph faces the joys and lonelinesses of independence in this feminist reworking of Greek myth from an Orange winner

Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima review – tales from Tokyo

This short, powerful novel translated by Geraldine Harcourt follows a single mother’s struggles to build a life in the city

The best recent crime novels – review roundup

The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly; The Hunger by Alma Katsu; Paper Ghosts by Julia Haeberlin; American by Day by Derek B Miller; Body & Soul by John Harvey

The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla review – funny and profound

The editor of The Good Immigrant draws on that anthology’s themes for an ambitious family story

Mothers by Jacqueline Rose review – an indignant defence

Are mothers really held accountable for the world’s ills? Why does our society punish women?

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society review – an outbreak of world war twee

Populated by Downtown Abbey graduates, this glutinous postwar rom-dram is a load of cobblers