Our books editor Zoe West’s favourite picks for the month

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

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

BETRAYAL MI5 is the setting for this tense thriller starring Shaun Evans, Romola Garai and Zahra Ahmadi. Created by award-winning writer David Eldridge, the series centres on John Hughes (Evans), a se

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