7,861 book reviews and counting...

"Clarke is unerringly good at telling stories and Dear Life is full of them..."

"a novel of great kindness, often unexpectedly moving, with much to say about the status of “invisible” older women..."

"The Other Bennet Sister reads as an enjoyable kind of fanfic..."

"Loewenstein gives a thorough and convincing picture of an utterly failed policy..."

"I reached page 50 of Say Why to Drugs before I learned anything new......"

"an accomplished and, above all, extremely enjoyable debut..."

"unpredictable first novel from Beijing-born An Yu..."

"an important and crackingly good read..."

"an exotic journey with a feelgood ending..."

" It has some good lines and is richly entertaining throughout, but under the surface it is pretty serious...."

"An information-packed analysis of Asia’s regional tensions..."

"a lively, attention-holding account of what is surely the strangest decade in British history..."

"A quixotic global quest to see all of the master’s 42 paintings..."

"It’s a pity she distrusts narratives and conclusions..."

"The author of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing gets lost in literary solipsism..."

"a delightful, stealthily affecting story about what it means to be a family..."

"Cha...is a talented storyteller..."

"if your plan is to get up to speed I would recommend it wholeheartedly..."

"The natural and supernatural collide in this portrait of a tiny community brimming with secrets. ..."

"Sansom’s deep reading about the past, creatively processed, gives Shardlake’s adventures special historical value. ..."

"This fabulously frank tech memoir is full of sexism and excess..."

"An essential account of the ideologies that have shaped the region..."

"Eleven freewheeling pharmaceutically messy vignettes..."

"A hugely entertaining memoir recounts the dramas of writing biographies of two tricky literary giants...."

"(it) has a gripping modernity and inconclusiveness..."

"A Scheme of Heaven will make you fall in love with astrology..."

" An ambitious book draws on science to show that there is no unchanging ‘inner self’...."

"don’t let excuses stop you from getting stuck into this thrilling new detective series..."

"Think Ulysses on a cocaine binge..."

"as fresh and engaging as you are likely to find..."

" It has some good lines and is richly entertaining throughout, but under the surface it is pretty serious...."

"The author of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing gets lost in literary solipsism..."

"A quixotic global quest to see all of the master’s 42 paintings..."

"(a) careful reconstruction of an understudied footnote in Jamaican history..."

"This is enraging, essential reading..."

"..has the potential to become the millennial generation’s answer to self-help books like Eat Pray Love..."

"don’t let excuses stop you from getting stuck into this thrilling new detective series..."

"Artemis Fowl for grown-ups..."

"uses its headline-grabbing counterfactuals as an opportunistic peg for a tricked-out potboiler...."

"a novel of great kindness, often unexpectedly moving, with much to say about the status of “invisible” older women..."

"Think Ulysses on a cocaine binge..."

"a rich portrait of a 20th-century American family..."

"The natural and supernatural collide in this portrait of a tiny community brimming with secrets. ..."

"I reached page 50 of Say Why to Drugs before I learned anything new......"

"Dietrich’s life provides no shortage of rollercoaster drama..."

"Eleven freewheeling pharmaceutically messy vignettes..."

" An ambitious book draws on science to show that there is no unchanging ‘inner self’...."

"an important and crackingly good read..."

"Sophie Hannah is one of this country’s most accomplished writers..."

"a mesmerising autobiographical novel..."

"a sweeping historical saga..."

"However polemically useful it may be, Munif’s rejection of geopolitical analysis leaves him unable to ask or answer vital questions..."

"An essential account of the ideologies that have shaped the region..."

"fascinating for the sheer detail..."

"Engrossing new work takes informed historical look at the nation’s transition from dictatorship..."

"The villain of this much-hyped debut is a total bore..."

"An information-packed analysis of Asia’s regional tensions..."

"In asking why women read fiction, Taylor’s book makes a start..."

"Cha...is a talented storyteller..."

"Yaffa is concerned with how Russian individuals make personal compromises or find an accommodation with Putin’s state...."