The best books of the week

Katie Kitamura’s coolly observed novel of human interaction; the Sheffield music scene behind Heaven 17 and The Human League; exploring Britain’s Great North Road; a romcom by ‘Call Me By Your Name’ author André Aciman; a family memoir of Nazis and weapons science; the untold lives of the Crippen case women; a freshly translated history of 12 Roman rulers; James Lovegrove’s top sci-fi titles; Nilanjana Roy on dream states — plus five books that unpick tariffs and trade wars