Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life – review

Nick Coleman’s analysis of pop’s most thrilling singers brims with joy and well-turned phrases, but doesn’t dig deep enough

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home review – Mark Mazower’s evocative story of his forebears

The noted historian’s account of his family’s exile from Russia after the revolution offers a rich cast of characters

Trumpocracy review: David Frum’s appalled analysis lacks fire and fury

The Bush speechwriter who coined the term ‘axis of evil’ has become one more Never-Trump Republican overtaken by the pace of the events he decries

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff – review

Michael Wolff’s sensational White House exposé paints Trump as a childlike nonentity sustained by our grim fascination

Blood on the Page by Thomas Harding review – the first British murder trial held in secret

A man is found dead in his London home. The killer is jailed. But is it all a high-level cover-up?

Writer’s Luck: A Memoir 1976-1991 by David Lodge – review

Where is the accomplished comic novelist in this over-detailed, prickly account, which has only flashes of moving writing and entertaining gossip

Moor Mother review – howl of apocalyptic fury is kept to a whisper

A weedy sound system prevents the Philadelphian poet, musician and activist from tapping into true dread

Enemies Within by Richard Davenport-Hines review – the Cambridge spies and distrust of the elite

Did Burgess, Philby and Maclean wreak more damage to the British establishment following their exposure than they had while they were actually spying?

Lullaby by Leïla Slimani review – brilliantly unsettling

She seemed like the perfect nanny… A stylishly written French thriller probes at fault lines of gender, race and class to devastating effect

A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman and Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama – review

Goodman details the complex history of a dynamic religion while Schama’s immersive book resists bleakness, his varied protagonists blazing with vitality

An Evening with Germaine Greer review – hour-long ramble misses the #metoo moment

A timely keynote from one of the world’s leading feminists promised much but delivered little

Star in the Jar review – magical story of loss and sibling love

Sam Hay’s warm-hearted tale explores the wonders of the night sky

My Brother’s Husband review – a Canadian gay man about the house

A single-parent Tokyo dad opens his door to an unexpected visitor in this touching, complex tale from award-winning Manga artist Gengoroh Tagame

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing review – timely guide

Daniel H Pink’s engaging book reveals the best times of day to make optimum decisions

How Democracies Die review – the secret of Trump’s success

A fascinating account of how the US shook off its democratic safeguards and gave the world Donald Trump