The big paperback this month is undoubtedly Stephen King’s THE INSTITUTE (Rated 4 out of 5 stars 23 July, Hodder & Stoughton). It centres on Luke Ellis, a 12-year-old maths prodigy withtelekinetic ability who’s abducted from his parents and placed in the titular facility; there he andsimilar children are subjected to abuse and experimentation. We said: “King drives the book forward with a brisk sense of momentum, while delivering his usual sharp characterisation… A solidly engaging, brilliantly readable thriller.” Keeping it in the family, King’s son Joe Hill has a reissue coming too.FULL THROTTLE (Rated 4 out of 5 stars 6 August, Gollancz) collects 13 of his shortstories. A couple were co-written with his father - one being “In The Tall Grass”, theinspiration for the Netflix movie. We said: “There are no outright clunkers here, and plenty of images that hook in your mind like burs: fairground carousel horses coming to life; the jet trails of ICBMs blossoming beneath a passenger jet.” Finally, a more affordable edition ofEXHALATION (Rated 4 out of 5 stars, 23 July, Picador) is also imminent. This collection of nine tales by TedChiang (author of the short story adapted for the big screen as Arrival) is his first since2002. We said: “Chiang’s a master. He writes smart, sharp, apparently self-contained experiments of thought and feeling whose impact goes well beyond their page count… It’s not perfect, but few collections come closer.”