American Sara Taylor has, at 24, written a startling debut. Billy O’Callaghan discovers a writer eager to push the boundaries of fiction in a moving but frightening way.

Caitlin, 12, lives alone with her mum Sheri in a subsidised housing complex by Seattle airport, a soulless zone of cargo transports and industrial units. 

Author Harper Lee has said she is “happy as hell” about the publication of a sequel to her bestseller To Kill A Mockingbird after concerns were raised about the extent of her involvement in the project.

Kathy Reichs

Tim Pears

This week's reviews in brief

The weeks book reviews in brief

This week's reviews in brief

Enon

TAMPA

This week's reviews in brief

A Light That Never Goes Out

A Farewell To Arms: The Special Edition

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

The Family Corleone

Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets For 60 Years

William Heinemann, £18.99; Kindle £6.39

James Ellroy

Tinkers

A pirate adventure story co-written by the late Marlon Brando is to be published this week, more than a year after his death.

The dark world of the Corleones returned today as the first copies of the Godfather sequel arrived in book shops.