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The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce review – hits all the right notes

Joyce’s heart-warming fourth novel follows a band of shopkeepers in the 80s struggling to halt redevelopment plans

Picture books for children reviews – from old hats to new homes

Neil Gaiman’s pearl-eyed princess and a magical tale of moving house are among the best illustrated reads for kids this summer

Teenage fiction reviews – the hapless magician and lost souls in Hollywood

A stranger offers hope to a struggling spellcaster, love is in the air in the entertaining Freshers, and detention ends in death in a first-class mystery

Fiction for older children reviews – tales of the cities

London and New York both feature strongly in stories from both sides of the pond, while Room author Emma Donoghue makes her children’s fiction debut

The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich review – ‘a monument to courage’

Soviet women recall their wartime lives in these epic first-person accounts, translated into English for the first time

The best books on Ghana: start your summer reading here

A literary tour of Ghana takes in the early disappointments of independence, a woman’s search for personal freedom, and the gradual evolution of democracy

The Tryst by Monique Roffey review – perfectly judged erotic fiction

Sex and mythology collide in a novel with insights into contemporary coupledom

Growth and Form by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson review – centenary of a Darwin-challenging classic

Honeycombs, snail shells, a tiger’s stripes … The celebrated study of how physical forces and mathematical laws affect natural selection has just been reissued

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong review – migration, America and Vietnam

Borders and identities blur in this hotly tipped collection from a young poet who moved to the US as a child

M by Henry Hemming review – the fascist spymaster of MI5

A superb book on the naturalist turned intelligence officer discloses new information on agents within far right and communist organisations

Hunger by Roxane Gay review – how the world treats fat people

A catalogue of horrors and public humiliations, Gay’s memoir responds to society’s condescension and disgust about her body size

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig review – provokes wonder and delight

A teacher’s rare genetic condition prevents him from ageing at the normal rate in the talented Haig’s clever time-hopping fantasy

Devil’s Bargain review: Steve Bannon and the making of President Joe Pesci

Donald Trump takes second billing – careful, Steve – in a propulsive tale of the Goodfellas election heist that stunned Republicans, America and the world

What the Ladybird Heard review – Julia Donaldson’s jolly farmers don’t skip a bleat

Wacky songs, animal sounds and upbeat performances abound in this charming stage version of the popular children’s picture book

Boundless by Jillian Tamaki review – picture-perfect short stories

This collection of graphic short stories, quirky and ephemeral though they seem at first, are indelible in the mind

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