Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
RECOVERING from their mother’s attempted suicide, young sisters Caroline and Joanna spend the summer of 1990 at their great-aunt’s quiet Cotswold cottage in A Place to Lie by Rebecca Griffiths (Sphere, £19.99).
But what might have been an idyllic break from their harsh reality ends in horror, in a village tainted by sad secrets and terrible passions. Nearly 30 years later, a tragic accident takes Joanna back to Witchwood, where she finds answers to questions she might have been better off not asking.
SIMON PARSONS applauds an artist who rescues and rehumanises stories of women, the victims of violence, from a feminist perspective
STEVE ANDREW is intrigued by a timely and well-researched book that demonstrates the conflicted history of the central Asian country
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Ceremony, Eddington, The Life of Chuck, and The Thursday Murder Club
CARL DEATH introduces a new book which explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change


