8,295 book reviews and counting...

"it’s in personal meetings like this where Ebner’s book comes alive..."

"Kucharski is capable of looking beyond the numbers, to the culture and politics of outbreaks..."

"An inspiring hymn to the feminists who fought for change illustrates why it pays to be demanding..."

"witty and really rather brilliant — Enright, then, in a nutshell..."

"Low is a novel that sounds more interesting than it really is...."

" It is a treatise and a howl of anger dressed up in novel form..."

"The scariest thing about the Führer is that he was horribly ordinary..."

"For all its weight and length, Warhol: A Life as Art feels a tad premature..."

"If there is a fault in the book, it is that Levitin himself is almost too curious and conscientious..."

"Leila Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos..."

"This story about homelessness is truthful and compelling, and Duffy has a talent for imparting serious ideas entertainingly..."

"brimming with empathy as well as indignation, this novel engagingly extends Adiga’s fictional concern with deprivation and injustice..."

"Mian’s gentle mixing of humour and Muslim tradition ... is fresh and necessary...."

"this history hits the right notes..."

"This smart, funny novel about social media and modern romance from the author of Animals mixes humour with grief and betrayal..."

"an intricately plotted book that is by turns stimulating, moving and sometimes mildly pretentious..."

"Her life went from the age of the gas range to that of the microwave; from brain stew to boil-in-the-bag curry..."

"a monumental portrait of the art souperstar..."

"Highfire is deliciously funny at times. In a sea of forgettable modern fantasy titles, it offers moments of genuine originality..."

"Philip Hensher’s novel about ageing student radicals is elegant and warm-hearted,..."

"Julie Summers’s magnificent new biography..."

"It’s a treasure to be savoured as testament of the human will to survive...."

"It is reminiscent of a long-exposure photograph, tracking the effects of time scored through life, and place, and landscape, and the human heart..."

"Hat is a good and handsome book..."

"There’s nothing startlingly new in this pot-pourri, but the mixture of well-digested detail and emotional understanding is pleasing..."

"a witty, charming guide to opening our minds..."

"littered with sharp insights expressed in exquisitely lucid prose but is as amorphous as its title suggests..."

"the mystery that keeps unravelling, like blood, truth and memory...."

"the writing can be exquisite – more like prose poetry than cash-in-hand fiction..."

" while this novel succeeds as entertainment, it is also one to make you think..."

"For all its weight and length, Warhol: A Life as Art feels a tad premature..."

"a monumental portrait of the art souperstar..."

"written in the form of a lively conversation with plenty of provocative examples..."

"Engagingly open-minded would be one way to describe her; hilariously naive another..."

"Swiftly read — swiftly forgotten..."

"An inspiring hymn to the feminists who fought for change illustrates why it pays to be demanding..."

"Meticulously researched and engagingly written..."

"brimming with empathy as well as indignation, this novel engagingly extends Adiga’s fictional concern with deprivation and injustice..."

"It’s easy to read the biography of Hurston in her protagonists’ lives..."

"It’s a treasure to be savoured as testament of the human will to survive...."

" It is a treatise and a howl of anger dressed up in novel form..."

"as this gripping book reveals, the 1930s was the most thrillingly desperate climbing decade of all..."

"This compelling look at the clash between populists and the liberal establishment sees a way to bring the two sides together..."

"the best motherhood book ever written?..."

"If there is a fault in the book, it is that Levitin himself is almost too curious and conscientious..."

"it is not for the most part a new story, but he tells it well..."

"a heartfelt story to snuggle into..."

"it’s in personal meetings like this where Ebner’s book comes alive..."

"Price is a poet, as one can deduce from his prose without the help of the blurb on the jacket..."

"witty and really rather brilliant — Enright, then, in a nutshell..."

"Leila Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos..."

"a powerful insight into the turbulence on the city’s streets that made world headlines for much of 2014 and again in 2019..."

"This is a terrific debut of strange myths and dark secrets, fierce loyalties and ruthless villains..."

"It’s a commanding, if demanding, read..."

"...a brilliant exemplar for the autofictional method..."

"Kucharski is capable of looking beyond the numbers, to the culture and politics of outbreaks..."

"It is reminiscent of a long-exposure photograph, tracking the effects of time scored through life, and place, and landscape, and the human heart..."

"as Karen Jones sets out dismayingly early in her book, the only things that the real-life ‘Calamity Jane’ can with confidence be said to have in common with her legend is that she wore trousers, swore like a navvy and was pissed all the time..."