A Hero Born by Jin Yong review – the gripping world of kung fu chivalry

The martial arts epic Legends of the Condor Heroes is the magnum opus of China’s most widely read living writer. The first book has finally been translated into English, and it’s a joy

Johnson’s Brexit Dictionary by Harry Eyres and George Myerson review – a satirical A to Z

What would the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson have made of Britain’s ‘deep and special partnership’ with the EU? A squib of a lexicon offers a feeble answer

Brother by David Chariandy review – a family on the edge of disaster

This is an exquisite Canadian novel about growing up in a poor immigrant neighbourhood of danger and futile dreams

The Killing Season; The Army and the Indonesian Genocide reviews – the truth about one of the 20th century’s worst massacres

Two books crush Indonesian state accounts of 1960s anti-leftist massacres, implicate the US and UK and revise how we define genocide

Peter Rabbit review – in a hole with James Corden’s unfunny bunny

This attempt to turn Beatrix Potter’s creation into a sassy, low-grade British Bugs – voiced by Corden – is cynical and tiresome

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff review – smartly subversive pulp horror

Secret societies, ghosts and Ku Klux Klan killers … racists are the monsters in this Lovecraft homage with a conscience

Frankenstein review – Manchester chiller is both terrifying and touching

Nimbly blending gothic horror and moral parable, this adaptation is skilfully stitched together by April De Angelis and Matthew Xia

Dreams Must Explain Themselves by Ursula K Le Guin review – writing and the feminist fellowship

The SF and fantasy novelist worked on a selection of her non-fiction during her last year. Its subjects include motherhood, abortion and the menopause

Sal by Mick Kitson review – deft, witty portrait of runaway sisters

This skilled debut follows two children as they escape from abuse and disappear into the Scottish wilderness

Behemoth by Joshua B Freeman review – how factories changed the world

Ranging from 18th-century Derbyshire to 21st-century China, this study has a memorable fact or an intriguing thought on every page

The British Mosque: An Architectural and Social History by Shahed Saleem – review

The architect and academic’s thoughtful survey explains why mosque builders in Britain generally stick to the tried and tested

Picture books for children reviews – strong mums and brave spirits

Naughty kittens light up Cressida Cowell’s latest, while another twist on the Rebel Girls formula is full of spark

Upstate by James Wood – review

The hero of James Wood’s midlife novel spends too much time with his implausibly well-organised thoughts

Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang review – poignant, insightful memoir

Lamont ‘U-God’ Hawkins is suing his fellow rappers for millions – now he gives his side of a hip-hop saga

The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand by Geoff Dyer review – supremo of the 60s sidewalk

A series of discursive essays, inspired by 100 Winogrand images, make for a playful and astute tribute to a hugely influential street photographer