A panoramic portrait of the spirit of the Cherokee that shaped America’s engagement with the world, says Melanie McGrath

Pleasure, in a very English way. By Melanie McGrath

Alison Light’s excellent and humane exploration of her family tree

What begins as a taut and muscular portrait of an unhinged soul grows soft and paunchy in midlife

Kennedy Marr finds himself single, skint and selling-out. John Niven's sharp, buzzing narrative sets Straight White Male apart from a standard-issue midlife crisis novel

The Dinner is sure to become this summer’s literary talk of the town — and the Twittersphere — in the UK, as it already is in Continental Europe