Best Australian books out in June: a buzzy novel, gripping nonfiction and an extremely unusual debut
Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
Unseen Edith Wharton short story is published more than a century later
The Men Who Saved the World, the Pulitzer winner’s lost manuscript found in Yale archives, appears in Strand magazine
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph; Selected Poems by Leontia Flynn; Sparrow on the Rooftop by Rachel Long; You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine, edited by Jorie Graham; Melete by Jennifer Lee Tsai; Somebody Should Have Pressed Record by Galia Admoni
Rivals’ Rutshire – a place where modern Britain’s brutal divisions disappear in a cloud of sex
As the second series of the Jilly Cooper adaptation climaxes, we can be thankful that quality TV doesn’t always have to be bleak and stressful, says Jess Cartner-Morley
The Children by Melissa Albert review – intriguing fairytale of creativity’s dangers
In her first novel for adults, the YA author explores the dark side of writers who fictionalise their children’s lives
The Ruiners by Ellena Savage review – a playful and subversive take on Great Expectations
In her sharp and intellectual first novel, the author finds tragic comedy in socialism, inequality and the flawed ways we connect as the world burns
Dina Nayeri: Marjane Satrapi brought Iranian women like me out of hiding
The Persepolis author understood us and translated us for the world. We have lost our most eloquent spokesperson
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan audiobook review – a grim life in China’s gig economy
This memoir of a man who moved around China chasing low-paid work for 20 years is an indictment of a shocking system, read in a suitably austere way
Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persepolis and acclaimed French-Iranian artist, dies aged 56
Family members said the author of the landmark comic book memoir ‘died of sadness’ after the death of her husband last year
Dominion by Addie E Citchens review – Women’s prize-shortlisted portrait of patriarchy’s horrors
The violence of male entitlement is embodied in the charismatic son of a Mississippi pastor, in a sharp portrait of cruelty and inheritance
Belle Burden’s divorce memoir was headed for a Salt Path-style scandal – but people are still on her side
The Oprah-approved book is said to have left out important financial details, so why does the writer remain a pin-up for wronged women, asks Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?
Some will question its credibility – but the alternative future to the one imagined in the Global Justice Report is far more bleak
The Traveller by Andrea Wulf review – an 18th century explorer far ahead of his time
A revelatory account of the life of George Forster, whose rejection of racial hierarchies stood out amongst his peers
Mrs Dalloway review – Virginia Woolf’s party planner plays all the roles herself
Kit Green takes on all the characters in an imaginative interpretation of the 1925 day-in-the-life novel
What the Hellenic! Why is Christopher Nolan’s new Greek epic entirely devoid of Greeks?
Set to be this year’s biggest blockbuster, The Odyssey’s cast has been selected to ‘represent the world’. Fair enough – except that one key country seems to have gone completely unrepresented …