Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband by Natalie Young – review
A woman craving freedom kills and eats her other half in Natalie Young's compulsive tale, writes Anita Sethi
Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power by Dan Hurley – review
Dan Hurley's investigation of the intelligence training market is entertaining if inconclusive, writes Ben East
Decoded by Mai Jia – review
Despite Mai Jia's meandering narrative style, his debut spy novel will leave you wanting more, writes Alexander Larman
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life by Berel Lang – review
A fresh reading of Primo Levi's life and work reveals his contribution as a philosopher of ethics, says Tim Adams
Reckless by William Nicholson – review
William Nicholson's follow-up to Motherland, spanning the period from Hiroshima to the Profumo affair, is hard to put down in spite of its flaws, writes Justin Cartwright
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War by Robert M Gates – review
Republican Robert M Gates's account of his years in the Bush and Obama administrations is sometimes catty yet full of insights, writes Dan Roberts
White Beech: The Rainforest Years by Germaine Greer – review
Germaine Greer's account of her restoration of an Australian rainforest is inspirational, writes Yvonne Roberts
Farmageddon by Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott – review
This survey of the effects of the intensification of agriculture around the world is at once committed, balanced and appalling, writes Lucy Siegle
Brokeback Mountain – review
Charles Wuorinen's opera based on Annie Proulx's short story has fine performances, but his music rarely transcends the text enough to enhance the drama, writes Andrew Clements
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht – review
The writer's conviction that suicide is wrong skews what might otherwise be a fascinating historical study, writes Lisa Appignanesi
Inside the Dream Palace by Sherill Tippins – review
A history of the legendary Chelsea hotel's slide from sociological experiment to den of iniquity entertains Peter Conrad
The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin – review
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City characters journey to the Nevada desert for one last adventure, writes Patrick Gale
Ping-Pong Diplomacy by Nicholas Griffin – review
Nicholas Griffin's history deftly captures the bizarre moment when table tennis lay at the heart of US-China relations, writes Isabel Hilton
Sedition by Katharine Grant – review
Katharine Grant's tale of marriage intrigues and deceit in Georgian London is a bawdy delight, writes Lucy Scholes
First World War: Still No End in Sight by Frank Furedi – review
Frank Furedi's libertarian ideas about the way we should view the first world war largely miss the point, writes Yvonne Roberts