In brief: My Favourite Mistake; Homeseeking; The Meteorites: Encounters With Outer Space and Deep Time – review

Marian Keyes’s engaging tale of fresh starts and old flames; a kaleidoscopic family drama spanning six decades; and an absorbing study of ancient rocks from space

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – shame, desire and the ghost of Virginia Woolf

A vivid outback tale, an anguished 80s love triangle and real life are cleverly held in play in the Australian novelist’s inventive memoir-novel-essay hybrid

The Violet Hour by James Cahill review – soapy and satisfying art-world yarn

Artists, gallerists and collectors vie for power in a rollicking mystery that pokes fun while also examining desire and regret

Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld review – sharp stories about the pleasure and pain of nostalgia

In the American writer’s wry, understated second short story collection, the past comes back to jolt her largely middle-aged characters

The Kings Head by Kelly Frost review – jocular story of street-fighting sisters

The journalist’s debut novel about a London girl gang of the 1950s expertly toys with gender and explores young people’s place in the world

Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp review – the filthy truth about trash

A globe-spanning study of the waste industry reveals how wealthy nations dump their garbage on the poor while the rate at which we produce near-indestructible rubbish only increases

One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – Gaza and the sound of silence

This powerful new book examines the moral contradictions of the west and asks what liberal values mean in the face of such brutal and sustained obliteration of human life

The Monkey review – fear is the key in a terrifyingly brilliant toy story

Longlegs director Osgood Perkins triumphs again with an eerie, emotionally profound tale of a malevolent wind-up toy

Those Passions: on art and politics by TJ Clark review – show me the Monet

The veteran art critic sets out to unsettle received ideas in this collection of 22 dazzling essays

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A boy with his head in the clouds; a Kurdish refugee’s tale; helicopter heists, a dancer’s dreams, a mission to save Mars and more

A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown audiobook review – juicy insights

A wide-ranging and thoroughly entertaining portrait not just of Queen Elizabeth II but of the psyche of her subjects

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis review – witty debut about Islamic State brides

A young academic travels to Iraq to help a British Asian who joined IS at 15, in this rollicking account of a UN deradicalisation programme

The Knowing by Madeleine Ryan review – intriguing ‘phone-free’ premise falters in execution

The author’s sophomore novel, in which a young woman is propelled on a journey of self-discovery after accidentally leaving her mobile at home, asks interesting questions but pulls its punches

The Café With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – lost souls in postwar Vienna

A slice-of-life portrait of a community suffering the after-effects of the second world war

Doctored by Charles Piller review – the scandal that derailed Alzheimer’s research

A dogged account of how the quest for a treatment may have been set back years by fraudulent evidence