A Story Lately Told review – Anjelica Huston dissects her glamorous life with a dispassionate eye

She has had a privileged life, but Anjelica Huston leaves the reader under no illusions in this accomplished memoir, writes Sophia Martelli

J review – Howard Jacobson’s disturbing dystopian vision

The comic novelist gets serious with a vision of a post-pogrom UK, writes Anthony Cummins

Munich Airport review – Greg Baxter’s elegant second novel

An American expat tries to make sense of his sister's death in a bare but skilfully told tale, writes Lucy Scholes

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe review – Romain Puértolas deserves the plaudits

This French bestseller lives up to its whimsical title without descending into quirkiness, writes Ben East

John the Pupil review – David Flusfeder’s enjoyable medieval road trip

Far from the simple travelogue it seems, David Flusfeder's novel effortlessly evokes the grime and violence of medieval life, writes Ben East

Happy Are the Happy review – secrets and lies with Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza's new novel comes at its subject from all angles through crackling dialogue and excellent characters, writes Anita Sethi

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910 review – ‘you might need sunglasses’

The 1900s Paris art scene blazes into life in Sue Roe's high-pitched study, writes Peter Conrad

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born review – a persuasive account of Ian Fleming’s Jamaica

Matthew Parker brings the outpost of empire where the 007 novels were written to vivid life, writes Robert McCrum

Future Days review – an absorbing history of Krautrock and 1970s Germany

David Stubbs’s story of Can, Kraftwerk and Germany’s postwar generation is enthusiastic and well researched, writes Ian Thomson

Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev review – an invaluable guide to the present crisis

Andrey Kurkov, the author of Death and the Penguin, is ideally placed to guide us through the Ukrainian revolution as it unfolds, writes Oliver Bullough

The best books on Sudan: start your reading here

Tragedies – personal and political, fictional and all too real – abound in Pushpinder Khaneka’s literary tour of Sudan

Rural revelations: the English countryside as it really is today

Andy Sewell's sublime photobook Something Like a Nest reveals a complex picture of rural Britain, caught between idyllic old ways and urban creep, writes Sean O'Hagan

Edinburgh 2014 review: Letters Home – reinvents the short story for the stage

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kamila Shamsie and other authors push the theatrical boundaries of narrative, writes Claire Armitstead

Edinburgh festival 2014 review – Spine: angry blast at society that denies knowledge

A troubled teenager and elderly woman bond over library books in Clara Brennan's fierce one-woman play starring Rosie Wyatt, writes Lyn Gardner

Riveted review – the science of why we find things compelling

Jim Davies's exploration of the psychology behind our passions and interests is full of attractive ideas, writes Nicola Davis