11,630 book reviews and counting...

"A bewitching read, but be prepared for the story to darken..."

"A delightful and respectful tribute..."

"Uplifting and relatable..."

"This impressive debut builds superbly, with plenty of twists and turns..."

"A bold read..."

"A carefully nuanced complex story...."

" this charming, warm-hearted book proves just what an intelligent, quick-witted woman Claudia is..."

"Tremain has long been one of our most accomplished novelists, and here is further confirmation...."

"this is an oral history in which a self-obsessed but blithely unself-aware blabbermouth blows the whistle on himself..."

"This is Dickens in the present tense, Dickens for the 21st century...."

"Arundhati Roy tears into Narendra Modi and India’s BJP party, but her polemic lacks a coherent argument..."

"She has had her payback. Is she prepared for the blowback from the long-term friends whose warmth, trust and hospitality she has so gaily and deliberately betrayed?..."

"Read each exacting page as closely as a poem, and it will read you..."

"(a) capacious and well-written account..."

"Neil Oliver’s new book has enough platitudes to get him a job with a greetings card company, but little in the way of interest or insight..."

"Filled with insider interviews and juicy evidence, this is an explosive account of one of the strangest periods in British political history..."

"this fine biography shows just how remarkable the women’s rights activist was..."

"Cleeves’s Northumberland novels are strong on atmosphere, combining old-fashioned detective work with a modern take on class..."

"his rewarding safari will brighten a year of bedtimes and lodge in the minds of children for a lifetime..."

"The Swedish novelist transports readers to a setting as remote as Australia’s wide open spaces..."

"Just Like You is readable, and shot through with Hornby’s deft comic touch..."

"Bullock’s story is sometimes confusing, but the voice she gives to Norris ... is a haunting one...."

"(a) magnificent addition to the Strike novels..."

"Hamza and his slow deliverance from his demons ... remain in the memory..."

"Now in his mid-eighties, Keneally continues to create immensely readable fiction that reimagines the history of his native Australia..."

"the pleasures here lie not in caring, but in an appreciation of Cline’s skilful and absorbing craft..."

"this is a moving and often lyrical account of a fraught, precarious life..."

"this is a whole-hearted and important attempt to analyse what has gone wrong for so many men..."

"this is a detailed examination of a toxic marriage as well as an absorbing mystery..."

"Wall tells this sad tale with authority, expertise and a gift for lucid explanations..."

"you finish the book consoled if not quite satisfied..."

"this is a moving and often lyrical account of a fraught, precarious life..."

"A bewitching read, but be prepared for the story to darken..."

"A delightful and respectful tribute..."

"Bullock’s story is sometimes confusing, but the voice she gives to Norris ... is a haunting one...."

"A bold read..."

"A carefully nuanced complex story...."

"For all its black-hearted opportunism and self-aggrandizement, it delivers a readable and bile-filled take on Trump and his minions..."

"Uplifting and relatable..."

"They make a compelling case in Brexitland that Brexit was the expression of deep-seated conflicts within the British electorate that had been building for decades. Pressures that had been accumulating for a long time were given sudden release in June 2016..."

"Wall tells this sad tale with authority, expertise and a gift for lucid explanations..."

"It’s passionate, important and Wheatle’s best novel yet..."

"This impressive debut builds superbly, with plenty of twists and turns..."

" this charming, warm-hearted book proves just what an intelligent, quick-witted woman Claudia is..."

"Trenchant, carefully researched and often very funny, Evans’s book is a pleasure to read..."

"One of the more interesting strains of this book ... is the extent to which both Lee Child and Jack Reacher are creations..."

"Robinson’s timeless prose, her Romeo and Juliet story, have an eerily timely ring..."

"These ardent poems will delight and disappoint..."

"From one of the Corbyn project’s most devout advocates, this is remarkable stuff..."

"The novelist’s musings on his life, art and loved ones are humorous, grumpy and utterly compelling on grief..."

"a thrillingly indiscreet political memoir..."

"She has had her payback. Is she prepared for the blowback from the long-term friends whose warmth, trust and hospitality she has so gaily and deliberately betrayed?..."

"Neil Oliver’s new book has enough platitudes to get him a job with a greetings card company, but little in the way of interest or insight..."

"Ross’s book is excellent, and extraordinarily thorough..."

"A dark and compulsive read..."

"A new book examines the long US history of harnessing technology to predict behaviour and win ‘hearts and minds’..."

"Charles Spencer has shown himself to be a perceptive and lively historian of the 17th-century civil wars, a gifted storyteller..."

"one wishes for greater darkness in the telling..."

"this fine biography shows just how remarkable the women’s rights activist was..."

"Dear Reader is a pleasure to read...."