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"there’s an enviable clarity and forthrightness to Slimani’s writing..."

"insightful..."

"there are many beauties to be found in Blackburn’s writing..."

"an arresting piece of fiction..."

"Brilliantly disconcerting tales of the human psyche from the Argentinian author of Fever Dream..."

"an immediately convincing evocation of time and place..."

"As with the best pulp fiction, there’s serious existential heft to this dazzling debut about a pair of toughs marauding around 50s America..."

"a thoroughly entertaining fiction that serves both as a sort of campus satire and a novel of ideas..."

"Clegg doesn’t make science delightful. He delights in science. ..."

"The strength of this short book lies in its illustrations — more than 100 of them, brilliantly selected and reproduced..."

"a subtle, delicate evocation of modern life..."

" Dear Friend demonstrates how, in fiction, there is the potential to find freedom and escape from life..."

"extraordinarily taut and compelling..."

"a fascinating account of what a city of seekers found at LA Central Library..."

"This is an ebullient, irreverent and deeply serious novel in the noble tradition of Mark Twain..."

"...this sense of the fugitive, the restless characters and their obsessions, that both buoys the narrative and ultimately lets it down..."

"a persuasive case..."

"smart genre-bending ideas..."

"cleverly blends nimble, sometimes slapstic humour with an affecting commentary on the corrosive legacy of violence..."

"makes some important points..."

" a rare rising star of the genre..."

"Denevi’s own rampant writing suits the story he tells. The personal and the political are inextricable...."

"A richly detailed biography reveals Hobsbawm’s inner life, and underlines how he became the world’s Top Historian and a literary star..."

"revels in its own complexity, blending humour and tragedy..."

"a cracking read and certainly leaves your brain with a lot of new information to process..."

"Once again James Lee Burke has created a phantasmagoric fable..."

"A superb new biography of Nicholas Hilliard vividly recounts the life and times of Elizabeth I’s favourite portrait painter..."

"a great success: richly observed, lovingly drawn and determinedly clear-eyed to the last..."

"The former political adviser dines with sheikhs and stays with ambassadors to grasp how a generation let down the Middle East..."

"There is much to admire in a former New York Times editor's account of the decline of traditional media..."

"(a) brilliant Brooklyn-set debut..."

"A journalist in exile offers a bleak warning..."

"smart genre-bending ideas..."

"brief, dark and wonderfully atmospheric..."

"French offers a masterclass in unreliability..."

"Mouth Full of Blood is a bracing reminder of what words do, how carefully they should and can be used..."

"a thoroughly entertaining fiction that serves both as a sort of campus satire and a novel of ideas..."

"a wild, genre-defying wake-up call of a book...."

"an immediately convincing evocation of time and place..."

"a subtle, delicate evocation of modern life..."

"skilfully maps a tale of growing tensions, precipitate action, and troubled aftermath..."

"Its insights are inspiring..."

"a persuasive case..."

"a beautifully written and utterly compelling narrative..."

"It’s savagely political, disturbing and fiercely optimistic, the deeply felt work of a writer who refuses to stop asking the hardest questions..."

"extraordinarily taut and compelling..."

"I loved the honesty of this book and the way Ratcliffe reminds us that the most intimate details of our lives can all come to light at any time..."

"In this unusual book, part memoir, part history, Clare Hunter offers a personal meditation on the textile arts..."

" Dear Friend demonstrates how, in fiction, there is the potential to find freedom and escape from life..."

"A lively, unsparing account of Terra Firma’s takeover of EMI and the music giant’s subsequent collapse..."

"a searing critique of how 40 years of neoliberalism has ruined the lives of ordinary people..."

"moving...unflinching on loss, longing and choice..."

"This tender-hearted, tough-minded book seems set to revivify a genre that can too often be self-deluding and thus pointless..."

"There is much to admire in a former New York Times editor's account of the decline of traditional media..."

"very readable and hugely damaging..."

"The former political adviser dines with sheikhs and stays with ambassadors to grasp how a generation let down the Middle East..."

"A richly detailed biography reveals Hobsbawm’s inner life, and underlines how he became the world’s Top Historian and a literary star..."

"striking specimens..."

"cleverly blends nimble, sometimes slapstic humour with an affecting commentary on the corrosive legacy of violence..."

"As with the best pulp fiction, there’s serious existential heft to this dazzling debut about a pair of toughs marauding around 50s America..."