Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans and critics Declan Fry and Cher Tan. All read voraciously and widely, and the only guidelines we give them are: make it a new release; make it something you think is great. The resulting list includes a page-turner about a beautiful grifter walking a fine line of survival; a dystopian tale where a man falls in love with a doll as the world changes around him; a (mechanical) horse chase across Europe; and a memoir told through a series of...