The Man Who Disappeared, Clare Morrall, Sceptre, £16.99 Reliable family man and accountant Felix Kendall abruptly leaves his family one day, leaving behind a trail of deceit and turmoil, with the police turning up to reveal he's been involved in money-laundering. Just as wife Kate and their children begin to accept the loss, he returns, and their lives are turned upside down. A brilliant read.

★★★★

Fordlandia, Greg Grandin, Icon Books, £14.99 The story of car mogul Henry Ford who bought a chunk of the Amazon rainforest the size of Northern Ireland and transformed it into a slice of middle America. Built to produce rubber for the cars rolling off Ford's production lines, Fordlandia soon became much more – bars, brothels and tropical diseases hastened the end of his Amazon dream within just 20 years.

★★★★★

Another Green World, Geeta Dayal, Continuum, £6.99 An appraisal of Brian Eno's 1975 album covering his influences – British scratch orchestras, John Cage, Steve Reich, cyberneic systems – the recording studio, Eno's collaborators, his experimental techniques and virtuosity at the synthesiser. Abstruse boffin or amiable buffoon? Dayal's little book tells you plenty about the present Lib Dem adviser on youth culture.

★★★★★

1 Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer

2 Mum Knows Best: The Hairy Bikers Family Cookbook

3 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson

4 Love Monkey, Edward Monkton

5 Dog Days, Jeff Kinney

6 The Pregnant Widow, Martin Amis

7 Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre

8 Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook, Tarek Malouf

9 Gone, Mo Hayder

10 The Long Song, Andrea Levy