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Children’s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels

Poetry with wonder and wit; a heartwarming tale for horse lovers; a portal to the future; a brilliant YA wartime romance and more

Imogen Russell Williams28 Aug

Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason review – a tale of literary obsession, with cameos from real-life authors

A heartbroken woman becomes fixated on a famous writer in this witty, touching follow-up to Sorrow and Bliss

Sam Leith28 Aug

Tell us: what have you been reading this month?

We would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this month

Guardian community team28 Aug

Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty review – an imaginative tale of turning back time

The YA author’s third novel for adults wears its quantum physics lightly, but it is a delight to be lost in its rich, character-driven world

Bec Kavanagh27 Aug

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout audiobook review – brilliant portrait of an existential crisis

A teacher’s private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal Massachusetts

Fiona Sturges27 Aug

Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrère review – intricate portrait of an elite French family

The author of The Adversary and Yoga unearths a history that includes the Nazis, Russia, and the Académie Française

Blake Morrison27 Aug

The rise of ‘biogossip’: Rachel Cusk’s Natalie Portman novel is the latest in a delicious literary lineage

The much-discussed Life of M is the latest in a lineage of celebrity satire that spans from Virginia Woolf to The Devil Wears Prada

Greta Rainbow26 Aug

Passage by Colin Thubron review – mortality and memory in a gem of a novel

A terminally ill woman makes a final trip to Egypt in an exquisitely wrought portrait of end-of-life reckoning

John Banville26 Aug

Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter review – hope amid the hopelessness

A writer and activist links the climate crisis to battles for justice around the world in this vital book

Samantha Ellis25 Aug

Triage by Claudia Rankine review – how should we respond to the world’s atrocities?

The American poet and essayist weaves memoir, fiction, criticism and lyrical lament into a tale of friendship in an age of existential crisis

Sarah Crown25 Aug

The Great Dictator by Matthew Sweet review – the fabulous life of Barbara Cartland

A brilliant new biography that does its subject the favour of taking her seriously – even if few else did

Kathryn Hughes25 Aug

Lesley Grant-Adamson obituary

Other lives: Prolific crime writer whose first novels drew on her background in journalism

Preston Witts24 Aug

Betrayal by Luke Harding review – could Donald Trump be a Russian asset?

A Guardian correspondent’s sobering account of the US betrayal of Ukraine – and the possible reasons behind it

Lawrence Freedman24 Aug

The Disappearers by Marlon James review – a scorching exposé of homophobia in Jamaica

This Booker-listed epic set in Aids-era Kingston is a triumph – bitter, bawdy and ravishingly queer

Yagnishsing Dawoor24 Aug

A poem by Jan Fran: ‘Write it down, they say. You’ll feel better. But how to speak the unspeakable?’

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, the journalist grapples with raising a child in a time of ‘tremendous helplessness’

Jan Fran23 Aug

‘I was scared I was going mad’: Meg Mason speaks to fellow authors about the parasocial relationships that begin on the page

As a lonely teenager, the novels of Nancy Mitford offered the Sorrow and Bliss author a lifeline, and an imaginary friend. She explores why reading can create a particularly intense bond with a favourite writer

Meg Mason23 Aug

When my husband died in a surfing accident, life as I knew it was destroyed. Ten years on, this is what I’ve learned about grief

One crashing wave on one single day changed everything for our family. How would I keep going?

Hannah Richell23 Aug

‘We are in the inferno’: diaspora writers lead new movement of nature poetry

UK anthology inspired by question: ‘Where are our black and Asian nature writers?’ has boosted interest in genre

Sandra Laville22 Aug

A party, 101 princesses and an eccentric millionaire: Jon Ronson on a mysterious castle – and what it taught him about masculinity in crisis

When my son texted me from a Connecticut fortress in the middle of the night with an alarming message, it set me on a quest to understand the bizarre lifestyle of its owner

Jon Ronson21 Aug