The best books of the week

Philippe Sands’ inside story of the legal case against Pinochet; the psychiatrist who victimised young patients for over 30 years; a damning history of Ireland’s 19th-century famine; an unflinching but compassionate exposé of immigration to the UK; a Merseyside murder mystery; novels from Solvej Bal

Banking on biodiversity: can rewilding pay?

Buying farmland to restore it to nature — aka ‘the Knepp effect’ — is on the rise. But while many of this new class of rewilder is doing it for love, financial incentives are beginning to play a part