Read, If You Like: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

A few weeks ago a friend and I swapped books for the summer. I leant them my favourite series, they leant me theirs. We solemnly swore to never, ever mention it if we disliked the other’s. It’s a risky business, loaning someone a book you adore. If the other person hates it, will your friendship fizzle out? Are you incompatible on a molecular level? Is this the friendship equivalent of one of you wanting children and the other not? (Yes.)

It turns out we both have excellent taste in books. Th...