Cometh The Yuan – cricket book review
Toby Chasseaud is bowled over by a novel imagining a world in which China plots to take control of the MCC by stealth
1965: The Year Modern Britain Was Born review – analysis of a revolution
A combination of arts criticism and political commentary demonstrates why the events of the 1960s are still relevant, writes Iain Morris
Updike review – Adam Begley has written an ‘exemplary biography’
Five years after his death, John Updike's life is well told here… but the rescue of his literary reputation must wait, writes Nicholas Clee
Shame and the Captives review – Thomas Keneally’s second world war novel
The Australian novelist recreates an escape by Japanese prisoners of war in New South Wales in 1944, writes Jessica Holland
The Rules of Inheritance review – ‘an intense and affecting little book’
Claire Bidwell Smith's memoir of coming to terms with her parents' deaths is unflinching right up to its happy ending, writes Sophia Martelli
A God in Every Stone review – Kamila Shamsie’s gripping first world war novel
The Pakistani novelist digs deep into the human heart in this story of a young woman pursuing her passion for archaeology, writes Anita Sethi
Mies by Detlef Mertins review – ‘definitive’ biography
To some, Mies van der Rohe was a god among architects, to others a Teutonic control freak. This imposing life gives the whole picture, writes Rowan Moore
The Girl from Station X review – all about her mother
Elisa Segrave knows her mother only as a self-indulgent drunk… until she discovers a cache of wartime diaries, writes Bella Bathurst
Hotel Florida review – a ‘wrenchingly sad’ account of love and bravery in the Spanish civil war
Describing the civil war through the lives of three famous couples, including Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, proves inspired, writes Lara Feigel
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins review – Irvine Welsh blends Miami vice and gender equality
Irvine Welsh's first all-American novel is a queasy sex comedy that pokes fun at media culture, says Anthony Cummins
Glow review – Ned Beauman juggles complex tangents and satisfying twists
Tim Lewis on a powerful thriller from the youngest of 2013's Granta Best Young British Novelists
Quiet Dell review – Jayne Anne Phillips’s ‘truth in fiction’
The American novelist's recreation of a real-life murder of a family is her best work yet, writes Kate Kellaway
The Disinherited review – a fascinating history of the illegitimate children of an aristocratic family
The prosaic and melancholy truth behind a peer's affair with a Spanish dancer grips Lucy Lethbridge
Creation – Review
GrrlScientist: Written by a geneticist and shortlisted for the 2014 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, Creation is a fascinating exploration of the origin and the future of life on Earth.
Long shadow over Palestine killing
New book tackles intriguing question of whether the leader of the notorious Stern Gang was really shot 'while trying to escape', Ian Black writes