Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk – review
Thinking about planning has changed: this is an intriguing study of 'urban acupuncture' and the informal city. By Alexandra Lange
Angelina Ballerina – the Mousical review: brings the house down
Will the tiny rodent ballerinas create a winning routine in time for TV spectacular, Dancing With Mice? Only if they cast aside ego and work together, writes Andrew Pulver
The Kingdom of Rarities by Eric Dinerstein – review
GrrlScientist: In this engaging and thought-provoking narrative, Eric Dinerstein shares his journeys to exotic and remote places, as he explores and explains the many nuanced reasons why some species rare and why rare species are important.
Munich Airport by Greg Baxter review – good, old-fashioned existential angst
The story of the impact of a woman's suicide through anorexia on her brother and her father. By Edward Docx
The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts – review
Intimate and unflinching, this is a stunning record by artist Marion Coutts of the illness and death of her husband, Tom Lubbock. By Tessa Hadley• Extract: 'There is going to be a destruction… the obliteration of a person'
How to Build a Girl review – Caitlin Moran’s quasi-cautionary tale of personal development
The journalist's raucous second novel owes much to her own odyssey from council estate to 90s London, writes Barbara Ellen
The Shape We’re In review – sobering reflections on the obesity epidemic
Sarah Boseley's examination of the causes and consequences of obesity in the UK is salutary, but does not go far enough, writes Joanna Blythman
Bricks & Mortals review – an eclectic and controversial appraisal of architecture
Tom Wilkinson's study of 10 remarkable buildings and what they say about society is challenging, witty and authoritative, writes Alexander Larman
All My Puny Sorrows review – Miriam Toews’s ‘convivial’ family tragedy
With this tale of suffering sisters, Miriam Toews moves towards the top league of North American novelists, writes Tom Cox
One Three One: A Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel review – Julian Cope’s far-out tale of fighting and time travel
This strange, funny and exuberant novel pitches hooligans against a Dutch cult on Sardinia. Only Cope could get away with this, says Sam Jordison
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P review – Adelle Waldman’s witty love story
Adelle Waldman brings Austen-flavoured crackle to her wry take on the liaisons of the Brooklyn literati, writes Jiayang Fan
Debut fiction round-up – review
A new batch of debut novels examine vice and murder, the demands of friendship and middle-class love in Delhi, writes Hephzibah Anderson
Before the Windrush review – an excellent study of race relations in Liverpool
A social history of Liverpool says much about current-day Britain, writes Ed Vulliamy
The Zhivago Affair review – how a novel became a weapon in the cold war
Dr Zhivago was no masterpiece but it was at the centre of a cold war battle between the CIA and the Soviets, writes Christopher Bray
Age of Ambition; The New Emperors reviews – two studies of modern China
Evan Osnos examines a changing China through gentle reportage, and Kerry Brown provides illuminating forensic analysis of its vicious power struggles, writes Isabel Hilton