Guardian review
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A Woman’s Work; Bad Dreams; MoonglowWhat the critics thought of A Woman’s Work by Harriet Harman; Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley; Moonglow by Michael Chabon
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Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd review – life with DescartesAn accomplished first novel that imagines the life, in 17th-century Amsterdam, of young servant Helena Jans van der Strom and her relationship with the philosopher
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Snowball in a Blizzard by Steven Hatch review – the complexity of diagnosing diseaseA fascinating and very readable study suggesting that we should redefine the doctor-patient relationship
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This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan review – explosive post-punk novelA portrait of a fictional Airdrie rock group morphs into a haunting, hallucinatory vision of the early 80s
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Angela's influence: what we owe to CarterAngela Carter died 25 years ago, but her legacy lives on – from Fifty Shades to Buffy, from Björk to The Hunger Games
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The Last of the Tsars by Robert Service review – dispelling the mythsThe historian and biographer has written an unsentimental, surprising account of Nicholas II from his abdication in March 1917 to his execution
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The Story of Pain by Joanna Bourke review – from prayer to painkillersNicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: wince-inducing stories of amputations without anaesthesia and sinister policies to withhold drugs from sections of society
Books blog The 2017 Stephen Spender prize – a callout for poetry translators