Julia Donaldson is back with another winner in the best kids books of the month

Chilling Thrillers out now: The Death of Us by Abigail Dean, The Final Wife by Jenny Blackhurst, The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani

Powerful and emotionally intense: The best Short Stories out now - The Anechoic Chamber by Will Wiles, The Accidentals by Guadalupe Nettel, Hail Mary by Funmi Fetto

A love story that creates a goosebump-raising spell: The best Literary Fiction out now - THE BEST OF EVERYTHING by Kit de Waal, MERE by Danielle Giles, ROOM ON THE SEA by Andre Aciman

New Contemporary fiction for April: Lucky Night by Eliza Kennedy, The Seven O'Clock Club by Amelia Ireland, Sister Europe by Nell Zink

Proof by Adam Kucharski: Milk or tea in first? Confirmed, you really can tell the difference

How many books does Anne Sebba have on the go at once?

Bird Song by Adam Nicolson: Why birds are clever, shrewd - and VERY raunchy

What Can Art Tell Us About Love by Nick Trend: Want to understand art? It's all about love

Lady Pamela Berry by Harriet Cullen: The society hostess who took down a prime minister

The Women's Orchestra Of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba: How music saved 40 women from the gas chambers

Who was Andrew Pierce's favourite monarch and stars in their own Ladybird book?

Hidden Portraits by Sue Roe: The only woman who gave Picasso a taste of his own medicine

Spring by Michael Morpurgo: Salute to spring by our most beloved children's author

Our picks of the Classic Crime novels to bring back for April: Murder in Transit, The Mouthless Dead, The Case of the Busy Bees