REISSUES
Pick of the paperbacks this month? Probably DEVOLUTION (★★★★★, 10 June, Del Rey). No, Max Brooks’s survivalist horror has nothing to do with Nicola Sturgeon going feral. Instead, it concerns a family of highly intelligent Bigfoots (Bigfeet?). Told in a similar style to World War Z, it intersperses diary entries from a woman living in an idyllic isolated community with interviews and historical notes. We said: “A cautionary tale exploring man’s dangerously arrogant relationship to nature… A chilling fable that blurs lines between man and monster.”