My Criminal World by Henry Sutton – review

In exposing the crime writer's trade so amusingly, Sutton deserves a wide new readership, says Suzi Feay

Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell – review

A baby girl is found in a shipwrecked cello case and the fairytale begins

The Round House by Louise Erdrich – review

Erdrich's award-winning novel tells a story of brutal rape and a boy's coming of age on a Native-American reservation, writes Laura Miller

Twitter fiction: Sabine Durrant

The writer and journalist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer

Scarlett Johansson to make directorial debut with Truman Capote adaptation

Actor plans big-screen version of Summer Crossing, Capote's 'inspired' early work about young debutante in 1945 New York

Bestselling writers know that image counts

John Dugdale: Robert Langdon, Harry Potter, Lisbeth Salander – you can picture them instantly. Visually memorable characters are making a welcome comeback to crime and thriller novels

When horror stopped being supernatural

How afraid should we be for scary reading now that fiction's monsters are being reinvented as worldly threats?

From Suffolk book plant to British readers but will novel generate UK tax?

Journey of new novel shows how book printed and published in Britain – and bought on Amazon – is taxed in Luxembourg

My desktop: TC Boyle

The novelist talks us through his reluctant engagement with the digital age, and his strategies for escaping it

Howard Jacobson wins second Wodehouse prize for comic fiction

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award secures author second Old Spot pig, named in honour of his winning novel Zoo Time

The Humans by Matt Haig – review

An alien at Cambridge University? In the body of a distinguished professor of mathematics? Harry Ritchie on a hilarious reworking of a familiar theme