Turtles All the Way Down by John Green review – dark and complex

Teenager Aza embarks on a mystery and a love story but both are soon derailed by her own anxieties…

The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins review – the world through someone else’s eyes

The film-maker’s history of the human gaze is illuminating, but has little to say about today’s image overload

Books by Masha Gessen, Serhii Plokhy, Yuri Slezkine and Stephen Kotkin shed light on Soviet socialism’s birth and death

Prizewinning Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai’s new collection of stories is ‘deeply affecting’

An enjoyable account of a year of mishaps, as experienced by the writer Anthony McGowan, makes for a good book to dip into

This slim book of letters between Marcel Proust and his neighbour the dentist’s wife are a delight

This portrait of a British favourite is engaging but brings little new to the bird table…

A story of morals and motherhood set against the mystery of a burning house is well crafted but leaves our critic cold

Brown’s memoir is great on his years in the Treasury but suffers from his fixation with the leadership

A poignant portrayal of two refugees from the former Yugoslavia trying to rebuild their lives in Australia is an admirably ambitious debut

These short pieces showcase Jacobs’s opposition to top-down bureaucratic arrogance and big-money property development

The Arthur C Clarke winner’s dystopia is set in a future US ravaged by climate change and war

Jeffers’s first nonfiction book is a witty, tender introduction to the world for his newborn son

Two books on swearing explore the cathartic pleasures of the four-letter riposte

Ian Black brings a fresh perspective to one of the most closely studied conflicts on Earth, unpacking its complexities with clarity and candour