Beyond Bilbo: JRR Tolkien’s long-lost poetry to be published

Long-lost verse from the Lord of the Rings author will reach bookshops 50 years after his death

Novelist Sarah Moss: ‘Hunger numbed my shame and humiliation’

As a bullied schoolgirl, the writer starved herself while greedily consuming classic novels. Looking back, she asks if their fragile heroines played a part in her increasingly dangerous attempts to lose weight

Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers review – trauma unearthed

The follow-up to Small Pleasures is set in a mid-century psychiatric hospital, as an art therapist delves into a patient’s past

Atonement by Ian McEwan audiobook review – secrets and lies

Succession actor Harriet Walter narrates this unsettling portrait of class, memory and the nature of fiction

The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer review – more affable nonsense

Is the follow-up to The Satsuma Complex a celebrity cash-grab, or a sweet, silly meta-commentary on thrillers?

Novelist Francesca Segal: ‘Wuthering Heights did peculiar things to my romantic expectations’

The author on reading Emily Brontë as a teenager, becoming consumed by the Patrick Melrose novels, and the magic of listening to the Midnight’s Children audiobook in Manhattan

Five of the best books about yearning

These exceptional tales explore the sweet, infuriating agony of being overwhelmed by passion and desire

Munichs by David Peace review – bravura portrait of a football tragedy

An electrifying retelling of how the Munich air disaster changed football and Britain for ever

Liars by Sarah Manguso review – searing tale of a toxic marriage

This compulsive, claustrophobic account of a bad relationship becomes starved of oxygen in the same way the narrator is

Sorry, Blake Lively: using a movie about domestic violence to sell stuff is not a good look

In a car-crash promotional tour for the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s controversial novel It Ends With Us, the actor has tried to flog not only her husband’s gin brand, but also a haircare line, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable review – compelling tale of Vivaldi’s musical protege

A well-crafted historical fiction inspired by the composer’s tenure as music teacher in a Venetian orphanage

The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar review – fantastical fictions and candid personal curios

The Spanish director’s 12 tales, written between the late 60s and today, are a heady mix of factual and fictitious, befitting of one of cinema’s most imaginative storytellers

Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel

A young queer activist looks back on how a complex life unspooled into a final, fatal act in the award-winning poet’s ambitious, unflinching tale

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker review – a gritty Greek game of thrones

Agamemnon’s fateful return home reads like a blockbuster in the colourful third instalment of Barker’s women-centred Trojan wars series

In brief: The Most; The Ghost Lake; Anansi’s Gold – reviews

A too-brief dissection of a 1950s American marriage; an affecting working-class memoir of grief and landscape; and an engrossing tale of a massively successful Ghanaian con artist