Psykhe by Kate Forsyth review – a cosy escape into Greek myth

This novel, by an assured writer known for her female-led stories, succeeds in its ambition to entice and delight

The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks review – a wild journey

A train journey takes an ever more phantasmagorical turn in this vivid eco-fable with a dash of romance

Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands review – growing up with ADHD

This coming-of-age debut set in an impoverished Scottish coastal town is exuberantly memorable

The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen review – a sweeping Sámi epic

Scandinavian missionaries wreak destruction on the Sámi way of life in an atmospheric tale of love and colonial conflict

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley review – time-travel romance is a sparkling delight

The author’s intelligent and witty first novel effortlessly fuses a love story, a mystery and postcolonial narratives

Passiontide by Monique Roffey review – flawed but well-told tale of a feminist uprising

The murder of a Japanese tourist on a fictional Caribbean island sparks a rebellion among the local women in an urgent novel mirroring a real-life case

The Last Sane Woman by Hannah Regel review – the precariousness of the creative life

An aspiring artist who dreams of being successful confronts frustration and failure in an assured debut novel

In brief: The Accidental Garden; Everything’s Fine; Freakslaw – reviews

A delightful horticultural memoir; a witty romance set in the world of investment banking; and a fantastical queer tale of marginalised carnival folk

Jeremy Cooper: ‘My agent strongly advised me against writing fiction’

The former Antiques Roadshow expert and winner of the Fitzcarraldo novel prize doesn’t have a mobile phone and hasn’t watched TV for 25 years. But he loves cinema – and his new novel, Brian, is about one of its lonely devotees

Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

Fresh debuts, long-awaited sequels, must-read memoirs ... the best new books of the season. Plus our pick of paperbacks and children’s fiction

Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession review – a delightful fable

The mysteries of everyday existence are thrown into sharp relief by the sudden appearance of a magical mountain

The best translated fiction – review roundup

Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán; Comrade Papa by GauZ’; The Son of Man by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo; Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith audiobook review – a compelling classic

Actor David Menkin deftly captures the antihero’s blend of guilelessness and deceit in Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller

Irvine Welsh: ‘If reading gives you comfort, you’re not doing it right’

The Scottish author on having his mind changed by Orwell, how Trainspotting was influenced by Ulysses, and his wariness of novels created with AI

Bernice Rubens, first woman to win Booker, honoured with Cardiff plaque

Scholars and politicians to attend unveiling of memorial at family home of only Welsh winner of literary prize