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
The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group’s view Baz Luhrmann's new version is the latest attempt to adapt a book notoriously hard to bring to the screen
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – digested read John Crace reduces the latest misery-fest by the author of We Need to Talk About Kevin to a caustic 600 words
Tales of the Jazz Age/ All the Sad Young Men by F Scott Fitzgerald – review These two collections of F Scott Fitzgerald's short stories, written only a few years apart, could not be more different, writes Simon Hammond