"it’s tremendous fun..."

"Timely and compelling..."

"gives a twist to familiar myth by offering the perspective of the women characters..."

"This tale of polar hubris is a “grade-A classic” that’s feverishly compelling..."

"You feel you’re in the room with this inside portrait of the billionaire CEO..."

"Adshead’s warm intelligence, curiosity and nuanced understanding of her work inspire trust in what turns out to be an unmissable book...."

"Rushdie is overly drawn to low-hanging fruit in this smug collection of criticism, speeches and essays..."

"A former special forces soldier’s hair-raising life story, from military high-jinks to heroin addiction..."

"Crowther’s book is an admirable dissection of the way Plath and Sexton rebelled against the values of Fifties American womanhood..."

"There is no doubt that McInerney is a writer of great gifts and boundless ambition..."

"a brooding, gothic-tinged coming-of-age tale..."

"Anam’s writing is stylish and funny..."

"This selection of the gifted writer’s work is stuffed with wonders..."

"a red-hot, propulsive book..."

" highlights Macneal’s rich imagination and vivid prose..."

"This account of an appalling chapter in America’s history is so apocalyptic you can hardly believe it..."

"gives the inner reality of blue-collar life a respect and attention it rarely gets..."

"Separately and together, The Skylarks’ War and The Swallows’ Flight are pinnacles of children’s literature..."

"it is a long shaggy dog story — and, in its rarefied way, occasionally very funny..."

"As well as its vivid, forceful prose style, Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene offered a darkly thrilling message. ..."

"Annie is a lively..."

"it is cleverly constructed..."

"This is an important book and not just because it is a chilling account of slavery and commerce in the West Indies in the 18th and 19th centuries...."

"This steadily prolific writer and teacher is like the grandfather clock in the hall: the idea of it stopping is horrible, even if it’s not as useful as it once was...."

"so tense, so full of jeopardy, that it makes many thrillers feel underpowered..."

"Eliane Glaser deftly juggles the wonder and boredom, the joy and pain and the many profound contradictions that attend modern motherhood...."

"The author wisely focuses on biography to bring to life 10 chapters in the Anglo-Saxon story...."

"It’s elegantly done, a portrait veiled in quiet melancholy..."

"this moving and unusual memoir also speaks of the pleasure and privilege that leaven the heavy burden of caring..."

"As a novelist Freud hits that tricky sweet spot between commercial and literary fiction and her novels are invariably a joy to read...."

"As well as its vivid, forceful prose style, Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene offered a darkly thrilling message. ..."

"(an) erudite, thoughtful and magnificently entertaining book..."

"Adshead’s warm intelligence, curiosity and nuanced understanding of her work inspire trust in what turns out to be an unmissable book...."

"Anam’s writing is stylish and funny..."

"this moving and unusual memoir also speaks of the pleasure and privilege that leaven the heavy burden of caring..."

"As a novelist Freud hits that tricky sweet spot between commercial and literary fiction and her novels are invariably a joy to read...."

"unapologetically escapist beach-read fiction,..."

" complex and occasionally convoluted, ending in a terrific set-piece legal showdown..."

"Eliane Glaser deftly juggles the wonder and boredom, the joy and pain and the many profound contradictions that attend modern motherhood...."

"a red-hot, propulsive book..."

"The sharp-eyed narrative historian Giles Milton charts this transition from the Yalta conference in February 1945 to the breaking of the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in May 1949...."

"This tale of polar hubris is a “grade-A classic” that’s feverishly compelling..."

"It is a delight to dip into his sun-baked world..."

"she skilfully adapts it to a contemporary British setting in which our obsessions with class and keeping up appearances are weaknesses ripe for exploitation...."

"...this isn’t an answer but merely a hand-waving hope..."

"Crowther’s book is an admirable dissection of the way Plath and Sexton rebelled against the values of Fifties American womanhood..."

"Rushdie is overly drawn to low-hanging fruit in this smug collection of criticism, speeches and essays..."

"This selection of the gifted writer’s work is stuffed with wonders..."

"Separately and together, The Skylarks’ War and The Swallows’ Flight are pinnacles of children’s literature..."

"gives the inner reality of blue-collar life a respect and attention it rarely gets..."

"This account brings to life the story of some of the 18,000 Nisei soldiers fighting for the US while facing discrimination at home,..."

"Haunting and heart-wrenching, this book is reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier...."

"A former special forces soldier’s hair-raising life story, from military high-jinks to heroin addiction..."

"A veteran of the Spanish civil war is visited by the ghost of Franco in a deftly handled story of past trauma and deceit..."

"This account of an appalling chapter in America’s history is so apocalyptic you can hardly believe it..."

"Timely and compelling..."

"The most banal things cloud even the best expert’s judgment, shows this outstanding study..."

"Jackson is excellent on a particular kind of midlife crack-up associated with irascible white bureaucrats about 50 years ago...."

"a solid and well-constructed police procedural..."

"This college-life narrative has an eye for comedy even when the narrator is enjoying a moment of self-pity..."