10,402 book reviews and counting...

"Perhaps the art of Melania’s deal is that she has a rip-roaring eastern European sense of humour and is one step ahead of all of us...."

"a powerful piece of work..."

"marks a new phase in Paul Cartledge’s career..."

"It’s rare to find such a programmatic opposition between the procedures of a book and the values behind it..."

"a delightful account of the search for what Baron, a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois, calls ‘the missing word’: a third person singular, gender-neutral pronoun...."

"One can appreciate the novel for its quiet humour and compassionate consideration of the everyday, unfashionable and unloved..."

"Kleeman approaches her subject with a winning scepticism..."

"...Martyn, the difficult musical visionary, thoroughly deserves this painstaking and eloquent biography..."

"comfort and wit, compassion and philosophical stimulation..."

"Rigged offers a judicious overview of our unhappy times..."

"This smart and humorous novel is, from the first sentence, rapture to read. ..."

"Chapter by meatily evidence-based chapter, she lays out the assumptions that underpin our understanding of birds – and then pecks them apart..."

"a Schrödinger’s drama in which the action spirals out from an enormous maybe, resulting in a paranoia-filled page-turner..."

"A lightly sketched social history of postwar Britain..."

"Innovation will be key in helping to revive Britain. This excellent analysis shows how it’s done..."

"how history’s greatest buccaneer got off scot-free..."

"a punchy but self-aggrandising memoir..."

"a biography brimming with colour and insight that brings both the character of the man and his many achievements vividly to life..."

"Campbell’s book is not a biography, but rather an act of homage to a man for whom he asserts lifelong admiration: he has been visiting Cloan since boyhood...."

"Louise Baring’s delightful account captures Frenchman’s relentless joie de vivre..."

"A delightful look at centuries of aquatic eccentrics..."

"a damning look at the captive lion hunting trade..."

" Sex and Vanity is a straight-up retelling of A Room With a View. ..."

"It shouldn’t work, but it does..."

"Rhodes writes beautifully crafted psychological thrillers..."

"an essential guide to the first half of Macron’s term..."

"(a) beguiling first book..."

"Edna O’Brien is steeped in the work of Joyce and brings her understanding of a writer’s life to her portrait of James and Nora..."

"a penetrating and ultimately sympathetic character study..."

"The reverse storytelling here is dispatched adroitly..."

"Viv Groskop sheds light on how personal readings of books can shift with time..."

"(an) entertaining and inspiring bespoke (ha!) account of the wild women on wheels..."

" An offbeat, comic crime..."

"...the vivid and compelling true stories she subsequently gathered for a series of newspaper columns are recounted in this moving and humane collection..."

"She is so wonderfully skilled at capturing the way life is lived half in and half outside a young person's head..."

"Sceptical of these things, I did it and found the questions mystifying at times. But the results rather blew my mind with their accuracy..."

"When this novel is funny, it’s seriously funny..."

"brims with wit and ingenuity..."

"McClenaghan is an award-winning journalist who deserves to win more awards for this expose..."

"My admiration for my own total star of a cleaner (namecheck: Jenny) was further magnified after reading this jaw-dropping investigation..."

"Craig Jordan-Baker explores a migrant Irish bricklayer and his clan with metafictional flair..."

"Rumours of the death of Scandicrime are greatly exaggerated, as The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Bjorg Ægisdottir proves..."

"A hugely talented rising star of children's books..."

"a galvanising manifesto..."

"this transports you back in time..."

"her second novel is equally impressive..."

"Out of the scattered fragments of myth, legend and archaeology, Matyszak builds a compelling narrative of displacement and power..."

"The ending? Wow...."

"The rollicking story of how a maverick British envoy to the Bolshevik regime assisted in a couner-revolutionary plot to bring down Lenin..."

"a beautifully written and powerful tale..."

"demonstrates a broadening out of his ambition..."

"a Schrödinger’s drama in which the action spirals out from an enormous maybe, resulting in a paranoia-filled page-turner..."

"a truly creepy tale of jealousy and obsession..."

"A heart-warming read..."

"A warm, involving story about growing up in a family..."

"a fascinating proposition..."

"Campbell’s book is not a biography, but rather an act of homage to a man for whom he asserts lifelong admiration: he has been visiting Cloan since boyhood...."

"(a) beguiling first book..."

"As this new book shows, what a lot survives from bygone ages..."

"Honest, moving and funny..."