7,132 book reviews and counting...

"Ultimately, I’ll Be Your Mirror suffers from the same disjuncture that afflicts all volumes of collected song lyrics: the distance between poetry and songwriting..."

" a beloved genius of storytelling and illustration..."

"...a work for the ages: It will be the font from which every serious appraisal of Thatcher and Thatcher’s Britain draws...."

"Between the Stops is like browsing through a well-stocked museum of curiosities with a wise and kind guide..."

"Despite the distilled strangeness of much of Fong’s prose, spending so much time with lethargic, disengaged protagonists can ultimately prove enervating...."

"Philip Terry – himself a fine formalist poet and a distinguished translator of Oulipo – has put together as good a tasting menu as any..."

"A Pulitzer-winning memoirist explores the life and art of Siena, as he comes to terms with the death of his Lybian father..."

"Raw, direct, and straight from the heart..."

"(an) eclectic, wide-ranging anthology..."

"an hugely enjoyable if slightly eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil..."

"reads like a sanitised version of Cider with Rosie..."

"The historian’s insightful, revelatory account of Theresa May’s premiership reveals how ill-equipped she was for the role..."

"a rich compendium of incidents, anecdotes and studies illustrating the linguistic abilities of animals..."

" a little novella that gets deep under your skin..."

"Kelly ... has written this entertaining and beautifully illustrated account of her work..."

"one of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language..."

" marvellously rich and thought-provoking book..."

" a book that is as much an affectionate biography of a business as it is of the man who made it..."

"Lively storytelling blends fairy tale and a romanticised history..."

"Part feelgood yarn, part portrait of terror and resistance..."

"parts of it are very hard..."

"Perry ... tells her story at pace, and in a crisp, accessible style...."

"ne of those rich, immersive novels that leaves you wanting to WhatsApp all the characters when you have finished...."

"This accomplished storyteller ... makes every line work so hard each paragraph positively glows...."

"a deliberately repulsive portrait of the author's junkie years..."

"A brilliantly written account of how pioneering anthropologists radically changed the study of humankind..."

"The beginning of a septet, this darkly ecstatic Norwegian story of art and God is relentlessly consuming..."

"It sounds in bad taste, but Scarlett Thomas has written a riotously enjoyable novel about a boarding school full of girls with eating disorders..."

"Unbelievers covers much ground in a short space with deep erudition and considerable wit...."

"In the context of our troubled times, it reads like a warning...."

"in a clear and succinct distillation, the story unfolds of scholarly wizard Prospero and lovely Miranda, who looks wild and clever. ..."

"I was a big fan of Miller's debut, the Booker-shortlisted Snowdrops. This, his second novel, is set in Ukraine at the time of the Orange Revolution, and in the present day..."

"Russell's debut stood out for me in an extremely strong month for debut fiction..."

"An outstanding debut—Vintage's lead for 2020—and not to be missed...."

"when her beloved father received a terminal diagnosis, she had to relive all her training in the most personal way possible...."

"Spotlight Books is a new initiative from Myriad Books, Creative Future and New Writing South to discover talented new writers who might otherwise be under-represented..."

"this is the quirky tale of a blossoming relationship from one of my favourite contemporary picture book creators..."

"This is what this utterly riveting, often darkly comic, and astonishingly honest debut memoir ..."

"(a) powerful and potentially life-changing book—a Vintage lead title for 2020—the US journalist author argues that in this age of technology and political division, actually just listening is more important than ever..."

"a powerful read..."

"In this accomplished group biography Wade beautifully evokes the emotional texture of their lives as she relates how each of these women sought a space where they could live, love and work independently..."

" this bracing book... combines memoir with hard-hitting analysis..."

"McManus is a true master of plot and intrigue, with an ensemble cast of complicated, relatable teenagers...."

"an extraordinary account of his life as a prisoner, and a near real-time record of his daily struggle to survive..."

"A fun, non-preachy guide to changing the way you shop..."

"A sharply observed and well-crafted debut that explores race, class and privilege in contemporary Philadelphia..."

"Thompson's writing is full of heart, warmth and humour but she's not afraid to address thought-provoking questions about the illusion of wealth and what it means to be happy..."

"the critic documents, in excruciating details, his physical and emotional reconstruction to understand the man he has become..."

"Cooper's iconic midwinter fantasy-one of my very favourite children's books-which gets a long overdue new look this month..."

"a remarkably self-revealing work by Dr Jonathan Rowson..."

"Gretton’s is manifestly not a conventional history. ..."

"A psychotic breakdown is not often the stuff of comedy but, in her first novel in ten years, Binnie Kirshenbaum makes it so without belittling the subject...."

" O’Connell’s splendid book provides plenty of evidence of Bowie’s restless, rummaging intelligence..."

" a novel that aims for exhaustive and ends up rather exhausting — but you do learn a lot about Georgia...."

"(an) eclectic, wide-ranging anthology..."

" a beloved genius of storytelling and illustration..."

"The hugely popular women's biography brand expands to a new series of Rebel Girls chapter books, each focusing on the life of an incredible woman..."

"...the writing has the power at times to mesmerise..."