REISSUES

This month’s big-deal paperback is THE TESTAMENTS, (1 September, Vintage),

Margaret Atwood’s sequel to . Set several decades later, it explores Gilead’s’s moving psychological portrait. It’s hard not to feel that less is more. The power of the original lay in the gaps it left for your horrified imagination, rather than the humdrum detail of a blow-by-blow adventure tale.” Rena Barron’s epic fantasy , (out now, Harper Voyager)