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"it’s tremendous fun..."

"... it works best if you don’t sweat the details too much and just let its wave sweep over you...."

"a damning picture of America’s Covid response..."

"Dawkins’s B-sides are still worth listening to..."

"a dramatic Second World War naval history..."

"Looking into his ancestor’s lives, this journalist uncovered a horrific story of brutality and injustice..."

"The Lonely City author explores Wilhelm Reich’s insights into the physical impact of emotional pain in a deft book of many parts..."

"Jackson follows her brilliantly unnerving Never Have I Ever with another battle of wits between a manipulative criminal and her victim. ..."

"Elizabeth Miki Brina’s memoir about coming to terms with her Japanese-American heritage is warm and affecting..."

"(A) concise and remarkable book...."

"assured and engrossing..."

" Fitzek’s brainy thriller is always at risk of becoming impossible to take seriously..."

"a moving account of a daughter’s sorrow..."

"Bradby’s blend of le Carré espionage yarn with Michael Dobbs political thriller is a nifty and appealing concoction..."

"Morris’s splendid new book..."

"a fresh approach to The Birds director’s life..."

"The past haunts a woman’s return to the Colombian city in this engrossing tale..."

"Real Estate offers the same hard-won, lucid wisdom that made The Cost of Living essential reading for anyone who has a mother or is one. ..."

"Clever, funny and full of surprises, this true literary original leaps off the page in a wonderfully attentive biography..."

"Shipstead, who has previously written sharp, elegant novels about dinner parties and ballet, turns phrases and observes people beautifully...."

"If this account is undoubtedly written with the warmth and empathy of friendship, it doesn’t shy away from the shadows. ..."

"Edmund de Waal revisits Paris to tell the story of the banker, collector and family friend Count Moïse de Camondo and his tragic progeny..."

"This tale of a wealthy widow and her Mayfair inheritance is a historical romp..."

"Serhii Plokhy’s book is remarkable and troubling..."

"Elon Musk’s plans to colonise Mars are described in heroic terms by Eric Berger..."

"this is the slickest, smartest and most enjoyable novel I’ve read in years..."

"a journey of passion and introspection..."

"Ruth Scurr approaches Bonaparte from an entirely novel angle..."

" he is a lucid and engaging companion..."

"Lahiri has spun a delicately layered story of a woman reflecting on her past, present and future..."

"John Higgs’s book lets in a glittering stream of revelatory light...."

"Franny Moyle’s ambitious, sumptuously illustrated book..."

"Jane Casey constructs an intense, action-packed mystery out of emails, court documents and newspaper articles..."

"A gripping stand-alone thriller from a well-known Nordic-noir writer...."

"Morris’s splendid new book..."

"The charismatic Glasgow-born winger and indie music obsessive recalls his passions, and life in football before the riches arrived..."

"a fresh approach to The Birds director’s life..."

"Vivid, wise and unflinching, this is a triumph...."

"A celebration of the art of trompe-l’œil confirms this French prize winner as one of our most gifted stylists..."

"(An) original and absorbing book, which is much more interesting than a study of foghorns has any right to be..."

"a big, complex and utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China..."

"beautifully written and filled with character and life..."

"a detailed and convincing portrait of an extraordinary life..."

"Real Estate offers the same hard-won, lucid wisdom that made The Cost of Living essential reading for anyone who has a mother or is one. ..."

"... (a) tour-de-force account..."

"a dramatic Second World War naval history..."

"Vickers brings out beautifully the charm and wit of Cooper. ..."

"Jackson follows her brilliantly unnerving Never Have I Ever with another battle of wits between a manipulative criminal and her victim. ..."

"assured and engrossing..."

"a moving account of a daughter’s sorrow..."

"it stands comparison with the early works of Sarah Waters and Barbara Vine...."

"McInerney is a richly savage writer and an incisive chronicler of her home country..."

" Fitzek’s brainy thriller is always at risk of becoming impossible to take seriously..."

"Bradby’s blend of le Carré espionage yarn with Michael Dobbs political thriller is a nifty and appealing concoction..."

"Saltzman’s forensic narrative..."

"Alec MacGillis offers a timely account of how the online giant has reshaped the US economy and wider society..."

"(A) concise and remarkable book...."

"a furious dissection of double standards – and a rousing study of a brave woman..."

"a torturous history of the massacre..."

"In the space available to me here, I cannot hope to capture all that this extraordinarily generous and roomy book contains..."