7,392 book reviews and counting...

"Watson’s splendid book combines great evocative power (and flashes of sharp humour) with the ethical authority of the best history writing...."

"this archival critique and collection of interviews is one of the most profound deconstructions of UK immigration policy that exists..."

"Astonishing... a landmark epic..."

"Curated with valuable context by Janet Somerville, a literature teacher in Toronto, it’s her own love letter of sorts to a woman she calls “a wonder”...."

"Marcus’s book is impressively reported, highly insightful and a rollicking good read..."

"(a) darkly transcendent novel filled with phantasmagoric visions, body horror and tortured beings traversing a blasted desert hellscape..."

"Verini’s front-line reporting is exhilarating..."

"The author’s passion – and the defiance of his subjects – is infectious..."

"Now and again a joke lands – but these jokes are saturation-bombed in the manner of a boss-fight in Ikaruga...."

"The strength of O’Brien’s work, apart from lyricism, has always been its reliable specificity...."

"This devastatingly scrupulous account of Jack the Ripper’s victims exposes the misogyny at the heart of the myth..."

"Here really is a world, thrillingly imagined and under the surface entirely like our own..."

"offers disappointingly few glimpses of the gaiety and charm so abundantly evident in the songs..."

"The book is packed with offbeat, startling anecdotes...."

"The pot-shots are bitingly funny. ..."

"This self-help guide is full of puns..."

"Longerich’s imposing volume (first published in German in 2015) is the third but perhaps not final step in a prodigious project in the prosopography of Nazi power. ..."

"There are many things in The Topeka School that are more eloquent than words..."

"feels at once more real – because less cartoony – and more sentimental than her earlier books..."

"As with her previous novels, Vickers has a keen ear for dialogue and there are moments of wry humour..."

"Tehran Children tackles the difficulties of recounting history from the perspective of today’s fluctuating political orthodoxy...."

"A weary, regretful deja vu pervades Crime in Progress..."

" a shrewd, skilful tale of loneliness, the search for meaning and a place in the world, and the problems of truly relating to another human being..."

"If Forgotten Bastards makes me very queasy, it’s because, 70 years on, everyone is still squaring up to each other...."

"Chang uses a gripping and emotional personal story to draw Western readers into the history of China..."

"these essays can only be defined by what they lack..."

"Me ends up, in every sense, fabulous..."

"This engaging book describes the Norwegian author’s travels round the five Central Asian Stans..."

"Intriguing debut about life as a Ghanaian immigrant..."

"I was a big fan of Miller's debut, the Booker-shortlisted Snowdrops. This, his second novel, is set in Ukraine at the time of the Orange Revolution, and in the present day..."

"Russell's debut stood out for me in an extremely strong month for debut fiction..."

"when her beloved father received a terminal diagnosis, she had to relive all her training in the most personal way possible...."

"An outstanding debut—Vintage's lead for 2020—and not to be missed...."

"Spotlight Books is a new initiative from Myriad Books, Creative Future and New Writing South to discover talented new writers who might otherwise be under-represented..."

"this is the quirky tale of a blossoming relationship from one of my favourite contemporary picture book creators..."

"This is what this utterly riveting, often darkly comic, and astonishingly honest debut memoir ..."

"(a) powerful and potentially life-changing book—a Vintage lead title for 2020—the US journalist author argues that in this age of technology and political division, actually just listening is more important than ever..."

"a powerful read..."

"In this accomplished group biography Wade beautifully evokes the emotional texture of their lives as she relates how each of these women sought a space where they could live, love and work independently..."

" this bracing book... combines memoir with hard-hitting analysis..."

"an extraordinary account of his life as a prisoner, and a near real-time record of his daily struggle to survive..."

"A fun, non-preachy guide to changing the way you shop..."

"McManus is a true master of plot and intrigue, with an ensemble cast of complicated, relatable teenagers...."

"A sharply observed and well-crafted debut that explores race, class and privilege in contemporary Philadelphia..."

"Thompson's writing is full of heart, warmth and humour but she's not afraid to address thought-provoking questions about the illusion of wealth and what it means to be happy..."

" a shrewd, skilful tale of loneliness, the search for meaning and a place in the world, and the problems of truly relating to another human being..."

"This self-help guide is full of puns..."

"The book is packed with offbeat, startling anecdotes...."

"The pot-shots are bitingly funny. ..."

"(a) darkly transcendent novel filled with phantasmagoric visions, body horror and tortured beings traversing a blasted desert hellscape..."

"Marcus’s book is impressively reported, highly insightful and a rollicking good read..."

"keeps the reader guessing..."

"The overall effect is of being in the unpleasantly insistent confidences of someone who, erroneously, fancies himself a tremendously slick yarn-spinner...."

"The narrator of Suncatcher comes of age in Colombo in 1964, against a backdrop of political chaos and whispers of revolution..."

"A weary, regretful deja vu pervades Crime in Progress..."

"his book is necessary, and part of the tragedy is that those who need it most are less likely to read it, or to learn from it if they do...."