James Purdon detects the influences of Dickens and Wilkie Collins in Lloyd Jones's moving follow-up to Master Pip
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones, Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett and The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
Joanna Briscoe hails a thought-provoking quest told in many voices
Follow our inaugural Twitter book chat as the Guardian's books team and readers discuss Lloyd Jones's latest novel
