Six Conversations We’re Scared to Have by Deborah Frances-White

The Sleep Room is the story of a psychiatrist let loose

On the Clock by Claire Baglin: exploring zero hour contract culture

Careless People: move fast and break everything

Dream Count is a rich return for a giant of Nigerian literature

Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, by Tao Leigh Goffe

Perfection by Vincenco Latronico: slightly unfulfilling until reality arrives

Neil Gaiman accuser: I will survive

Victoria Amelina’s unfinished book is a searing emblem of Ukrainian resistance

Joan Didion’s diary sparks familiar controversy around posthumous art

Three Days in June by Anne Tyler: a painfully pleasurable journey

Neil Gaiman and former wife Amanda Palmer sued in US

BookTok drives growth at Barnes & Noble

Friends in Youth: Choosing sides in the English Civil War – history drenched in colour

First publisher drops Neil Gaiman

The Artist by Lucy Steeds: a conventional tale with deeper resonance