Lore Segal, Austrian-American author, dies aged 96

Writer of autobiographical novels and short stories drew on her experiences after fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna as part of the Kindertransport

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam review – meandering study of money’s corrupting influence

The author of Leave the World Behind makes some strange choices in this aimless tale of a billionaire’s assistant and her quest to spend his riches

Foul play at the fish farm: ‘Nordic blue’, the hit new genre mixing noir and knitting

Satu Rämö has caused a publishing sensation across Europe – thanks to her novels about Hildur, a mindful cop who solves murders with her needle-clacking sidekick, then soothes her trauma with exercise. We meet the author for rhubarb cordials at her Iceland cottage

The American No by Rupert Everett review – truthful, witty, wise and stoical

Ideas pitched by the actor down the years that never got the green light are brilliantly recast here as wry short stories… and a script

Small Rain by Garth Greenwell review – staring death in the face

The American writer’s vivid and generous third novel, in which a poet is hospitalised by a near-fatal illness, is full of rich, universal themes

The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse review – satisfying family saga finale

The last of the author’s books about the Hugeunot Joubert clan ends with two intriguing personal missions in South Africa

In brief: The Blue Hour; England: A Natural History; A Book of Noises – review

A tale of art, ambition and power makes for Paula Hawkins’s finest novel yet; an intimate nature study embraces culture, language and history; and a fascinating journey through the science of sound

The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon

She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author’s republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature

Zoë Foster Blake: ‘I’d fight Moo Deng. She would win’

The author and skin care entrepreneur on her childhood pet wombat, her biggest beauty tip and her husband Hamish Blake’s mad birthday cakes

Attica Locke on the US election: ‘It’s white Americans that have to fix this’

The Highway 59 author discusses the influence of politics on her crime novels, how Beyoncé caused a backlash, and why Trump’s re-election is not as likely as it seems

‘Urgent’, ‘stunningly written’, ‘a feat of imagination’: the best Australian books out in October

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

Alan Hollinghurst: ‘I wrote letters to my schoolfriends in dwarfish runes’

The author on the brilliance of Burroughs, Penelope Fitzgerald’s concise mastery, and a teenage obsession with Middle-earth

Odyssey by Stephen Fry review – a jaunty version of Homer

The last in Fry’s four-book retelling of the Greek myths is relatable and full of humour

The Deal by Alex Miller review – the failure and the fire of an artist’s life

The two-time Miles Franklin winner’s latest book revisits familiar characters from his life and work, interrogating art, friendship and fatherhood

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich review – a multifaceted rural tale

A love triangle in a farming community provides the central theme in this garrulous small-town satire