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"a disingenuous, dishonest Brexit polemic..."

"This is genuinely unputdownable..."

"this is the kind of book you can devour in one sitting, desperate to find out who ends up with whom in the back seat of whose car..."

"a memoir that promises to linger with you like a literary earworm..."

"What lingers in the mind is not the burning injustice but the harrowing comedy..."

"(a) thorough success in comprehending not just the world and the age, but the king and the man..."

"Vijay’s mastery of traditional narrative skills wouldn’t be out of place in a classic 19th-century novel..."

"a thought-provoking look into the future..."

"A compulsive read..."

"A woman’s midlife crisis leads her to a reality show on a desert planet. Then her problems really start..."

"Two powerful books by low-paid women struggling to keep a roof over their heads illustrate the severity of Britain’s housing crisis..."

"Browne’s history gets lost in a haze..."

"An illuminating insight into the life and thinking of North Korea’s ruthless leader..."

"a true history of rocketry, espionage and sex cults..."

"intoxicating and chilling..."

"A lovely story about belonging..."

"Wheeler is as enthusiastic and authoritative a guide as one could wish for..."

"This comprehensive biography offers a 3D portrait of a man who was arrogant and vain..."

"this is a must-read for those wanting to know about Gove..."

"this book will teach you a great deal about the creatures who live right outside your door and are waiting for you to get to know them..."

" this seems to turn happy memories into a fond farewell...."

"a hugely enjoyable compendium of cricketing stories..."

"The book’s gift is to allow the child’s malleable perception to flash alongside the adult’s somber recollections..."

"(an) assured orchestration of a sizeable cast and a complicated, country-hopping plot..."

"mainly (but not always) well sourced..."

"I was gripped..."

"a scholastic thriller..."

"evoke[s] vivid memories..."

"fans of Maria Semple will love this book..."

"Strong’s enthusiasm was, and is, infectious...."

"...as gripping and brilliant as anything I have read this year..."

"a fine-grained and generally very persuasive account of Hitler’s rise to power..."

"a disingenuous, dishonest Brexit polemic..."

"Moving between London and New York, this novel interrogates the relationship between depression and love..."

"intoxicating and chilling..."

"This microscopic look at skin is crawling with revelations, from tiny mites to cellulite and skin care..."

"What lingers in the mind is not the burning injustice but the harrowing comedy..."

" this seems to turn happy memories into a fond farewell...."

"Two powerful books by low-paid women struggling to keep a roof over their heads illustrate the severity of Britain’s housing crisis..."

"(a) thorough success in comprehending not just the world and the age, but the king and the man..."

"another superlative anthology from Unbound..."

"As elegies go, The Missing Lynx is an awful lot of fun..."

"this book will teach you a great deal about the creatures who live right outside your door and are waiting for you to get to know them..."

"This is genuinely unputdownable..."

"The collection’s two finest stories both achieve this expert balance of the emotional and the cerebral...."

"Inside the secret lives and beliefs of the coders who effectively control our world..."

"Bad men and bad sex work up an appetite for tastier dishes..."

"In a satirical novel set in a near future, a global tech company has taken control..."

"a fiercely intelligent trawl through menopausal waters that is not afraid to confront the intricacies of the female body and mind..."

"The casual and deliberate cruelty carried over into public entertainment, with the gladiatorial shows in The Colosseum...."

"[a] bold, funny novel..."

"Vijay’s mastery of traditional narrative skills wouldn’t be out of place in a classic 19th-century novel..."

"A fluent writer, he is fond of a zippy anecdote. Yet he can strain for effect..."

" it is as important and accessible as anything he has written..."

"capture[s] with verve and imagination the grand sweep of its history, and combines this with an astute commentary ..."

"...takes the reader on a wild rock’n’roll fairground ride of the damned, where you’re simply not allowed to get off..."

"Lucy Ellmann has produced one of the outstanding books of the century so far..."

"Wheeler is as enthusiastic and authoritative a guide as one could wish for..."

"(an) intimate and revealing portrait, by the two-time William Hill Sports Book of the Year winner, of a revolutionary journalist who changed sports journalism forever..."