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

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

LOST LAMBS BY MADELINE CASH A chaotic family of five on the brink, a town held to ransom by a mysterious tech bro, a gnat-infested church, an ‘inner beauty’ pageant, a 20-something war criminal and on

Zoe West shares her picks for the week

Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight

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