Jasper Fforde tackles racism in THE CONSTANT RABBIT ( ★★★★☆, 1 July, Hodder). Its Alt-England’s downtrodden minority are talking six-foot rabbits, the result of a Spontaneous Anthropomorphising Event. It centres on a part-time librarian in a sleepy rural town, who also secretly works at the Rabbit Compliance Taskforce, a government department that uses suspect measures to keep rabbits in check. We said: “A lot of fun, with all the wickedly inventive wordplay, impeccable world-building and fiendish plotting that Fforde’s readers have come to expect.” Set three years after a pandemic that wiped out 99% of the male population, Lauren Beukes’s thriller