The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne review – growing pains of a big kid

A thirtysomething father-to-be struggles with the demands of adulthood in Dunthorne’s witty, economical third novel

Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World by Snigdha Poonam – review

A perceptive account of the challenges India faces in dealing with the aspirations of its growing young population

Hearts and Minds and Rise Up, Women! review – two sides of women’s struggle for the vote

Jane Robinson’s story of the suffragists’ pilgrimage to London unearths new heroines, while Diane Atkinson’s detailed study of the militant suffragettes is truly thrilling

Journeys With The Waste Land review – ‘If only they’d picked Cats instead!’

This attempt to connect TS Eliot’s great modernist poem with paintings by Hopper, Twombly and more ends up feeling like a stilted stagger through the shards of a masterpiece

The War of the Worlds review – HG Wells’s aliens invade the north

Laura Lindow’s adaptation of the sci-fi classic is a thrilling parable of complacency that allows a brilliant cast to shine

Restless Souls by Dan Sheehan review – bereavement, friendship and banter

Three Irish lads deal with fear, trauma and the loss of a childhood friend in this debut set in Dublin and California and and Sarajevo

Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell review – dementia from the inside

Mitchell was 58 when she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers. She began to write about the experience of losing herself, and the result is this remarkable memoir

Thriller reviews: The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn; The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld; The Feed by Nick Clark Windo

A chiller set in a post-apocalyptic world, a hunt for a missing child and a New York mystery – three page-turning thrillers

Savages: The Wedding by Sabri Louatah review – sharp French political thriller

Tension mounts as the French prepare to elect their first Arab president…

Media Madness review: Fox News host Kurtz stacks deck in favor of Trump

White House scenes well drawn but book does not balance criticism of media with critique of a Goodfellas president

Brit(ish) review – what does it mean to be black and British now?

Afua Hirsch traces personal and political histories in her timely study of race, identity and belonging in the UK today

Milkshakes and Morphine: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Genevieve Fox review – a lonely past and a painful present

An absorbing account of growing up as an orphan and struggling with cancer in adulthood is, happily, free of self-pity

In brief: Here Comes Trouble, The Wicked Cometh, Heal Me – review

Simon Wroe’s comic tale of a country in fake news meltdown, a murder mystery in Georgian London by Laura Carlin, and Julia Buckley’s revealing search for a cure

In Shock by Rana Awdish review – doctor turns patient

After coming close to death in her own hospital, a doctor perhaps protests too much at the language used by her lifesavers

Yorkshire: A Lyrical History by Richard Morris; The Debatable Land by Graham Robb – review

Two fascinating books inspired by Britain’s north country combine history, landscape and myth with poetic flair