10 books to read in the autumn

Get your bookshelves primed and ready. Plus: five films to get you in the mood. It's an autumnal extravaganza.

Well, whaddaya know. Give it a couple of weeks, a nip in the air (it’s been almost rudely brisk for September) and the first tinge of leaves on the turn, and I’m willing to embrace the interplay of late summer with the first crisp, bright autumnal days. Before you know it, I’ll come over all Louis MacNeice (‘September has come, it is hers. Whose vitalit…