13,111 book reviews and counting...

"Death in Her Hands, like all Moshfegh’s novels, is a mystery, as well as a portrait of a broken mind...."

" a personal and professional account of a life spent working in forensic anthropolog..."

"It is time for a reckoning, but hoping to change minds isn’t enough when we are faced with a larger system of racial capitalism that perpetuates inequality and injustice...."

"The Black Death seems an improbable subject for a comic novel, but Wilson takes up the challenge, and the result is fiercely funny. ..."

"The Times writer lays bare his experience of severe depression..."

"It is supposed to be a book about Britain, but Britain is largely absent. ..."

"offering surprising and original ideas..."

"(A) bracing, mountain-fresh repositioning of the country star’s story..."

"Erpenbeck’s writing is at its best precisely when she is able to provide us with this structure. ..."

"Bradford has heroically slogged through the 8,000 pages of her diaries and notebooks..."

"Deibert is always acute and provocative..."

"an intriguing debut novel..."

"Herron is an excellent writer ..."

"a smart and sensitively layered story..."

"Already a hit in the US, this hard-hitting novel reveals a hidden side of South Asia..."

" an ambitious epic telling the story of a fictional German city ..."

"At once gritty and escapist, it offers timely lessons not just in perseverance, but in nurturing optimism..."

"Having and Being Had dwells on Biss’s unease about her participation in a system whose values she does not embrace, even as she savours its rewards..."

"Mosse shows a deft command of character and narrative..."

"This definitive collection of Hazzard’s short stories is a welcome reminder of her remarkable talent...."

"nuanced and thoughtful..."

"An experimental biography tries to domesticate the great novelist, who was scarcely able to tie his own shoelaces without disaster..."

"Maine reworks the conventions of historical romance in a narrative that regularly undercuts expectations of what is to come...."

"a provocative, engaging history..."

"People of mixed race continue to find belonging difficult, explains this thought-provoking study..."

"This is an elevated example of the “millennial novel”, swerving cliche..."

"An exceptional read to mark January 27, Holocaust Memorial Day...."

"An Edinburgh tenement is the setting for these dark and fantastically funny tales..."

"Though far from flawless, this keening lament of an adventure is compelling..."

"Despite – or because of – its gappiness, there’s sadness in this simple tale..."

"A look at how the label went from eccentric outsider to defining the culture of an era..."

"The chief success of Sarah Pearse’s debut novel, The Sanatorium, is her use of place..."

"an intriguing debut novel..."

"riveting..."

"Herron is an excellent writer ..."

"Do we think of people who keep fit as more successful? The history and politics of an idea..."

"Packed full of small-town America ambiance..."

"It is supposed to be a book about Britain, but Britain is largely absent. ..."

"an original, exuberant novel, freewheeling from prose to poetry to non-fiction..."

"Her ambition is laudable, but her radicalism is simple-minded...."

"an unflinching insider's account of medicine in the time of coronavirus..."

"(an) exceptional debut, a steely but spellbinding blend of memoir, nature writing, social history and politics..."

"A gentle memoir by a romantic journalist, who recounts what happened when, seeking to honour her father, she agreed to consider a selection of ‘suitable’ husbands..."

"offering surprising and original ideas..."

"(a) witty and multi-faceted portrait of our nation..."

"People of mixed race continue to find belonging difficult, explains this thought-provoking study..."

" Jones’s atmospheric debut has a multiracial, multigenerational cast who are brilliantly and even-handedly portrayed...."

"their different voices add to the atmosphere..."

"My favourite — a dual timescale novel!..."

"a smart and sensitively layered story..."

"a paean to making friendships across boundaries, to being kind even when the cost is nearly unbearable..."

"what a joy..."

"Warm and funny..."

"May's compelling quest to uncover his family's hidden history illuminates topical questions about exile and belonging...."

"A new book from Harper is always an event..."

"The Black Death seems an improbable subject for a comic novel, but Wilson takes up the challenge, and the result is fiercely funny. ..."

"combines crime fiction with elements of gothic horror, set in and around a creepy village churchyard in Sussex..."

"This is an elevated example of the “millennial novel”, swerving cliche..."

"a gritty, post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller set in a 25th-century wasteland America..."

"Reynolds is a former freestyle snowboarder with an intimate knowledge of the sport and the rivalry it inspires..."