Brave New World has some exciting action sequences, but it's let down by crummy dialogue and tired stabs at drama ...

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride and We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes.

One of the sharpest pleasures of encountering new fiction can come from knowing almost nothing about it, or its author, in advance. In fact it’s often best that way.