Author and Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett picks out the reads that will help get your pulse racing

GH ’s books director, Joanne Finney, shares her pick of this month’s new hardback releases

by Heather Rose (£20, HB, John Murray) Set in the wild, untamed beauty of 1840s Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), this sweeping historical novel follows Caroline, a courageous and determined woman carving

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

From a new voice in literary fiction, this is a brilliantly chaotic, darkly funny story that explores family dysfunction at its most extreme. The Flynns’ messy lives – an open marriage, three very reb

Jane Fallon, the award-winning TV producer turned bestselling novelist shares the books she can’t put down