"The comprehensive guide to book reviews from The Bookseller"

"What Turbulence shares with its predecessor is Szalay’s characteristically effortless prose, his ability to distil lives into vignettes..."

"age’s eighth novel is many things: a love story, a coming-of-age story, and a brilliantly evocative sketch of Britain in the 20th century...."

"a determinedly literary novel... there are Shakespearean flourishes..."

"Hodges has a gift for making the reader read, and smile..."

"the story’s unpredictable shocks may reduce readers to a state of learned helplessness..."

"... the unifying element is the deep sense of goodness that radiates from it..."

"Coe can make you smile, sigh, laugh..."

"Kennedy offers a gentle, clear-sighted and deeply moving commentary on what humanity really means...."

"a drolly enjoyable blend of fight scenes and family history......"

"Schott certainly puts on a bravura performance, twirling and twinkling with tremendous energy. ..."

"A paean of quiet, pedestrian heroism..."

"Whatever voice Emezi uses, her writing is never less than compelling...."

"energetically done, if wearying for those of us who have left our hedonistic twenties behind..."

"there’s still plenty in Evening in Paradise to conjure the original thrill of reading Berlin..."

"Picoult’s timing is a Brechtian masterstroke..."

"His work is long overdue a revival..."

"Bleakly funny, incisive, stinging and – in its most destabilising passages – gut-wrenching..."

"original, ambitious and challenging..."

"These 30 tales wittily play with feminist ideas..."

"Kingsolver manages to make her characters simultaneously believable individuals, and embodiments of a generation...."

"a cracking good read..."

"perfectly nuts – you’ll never find anything like it again...."

"The pace is fast... sharp barbs and cutting one-liners..."

" this tale of five rowdy boys, immigration, abandonment and rehabilitation, proves memorable..."

"There is an engaging, albeit slight, story here, but it is smothered in the verbiage..."

" a clever experiment but also a frustrating one..."

"It’s well structured, in a crazed, absurdist sort of way..."

"Javier Marias’s new novel is an engaging and unsettling story about marriage and secrets..."

"This book of treats will stay fresh long after we are gone..."

"Funny, sad and true...."

"explores a broader canvas, geographically, structurally and tonally, though less would have achieved more...."

"Plug is a Wetherspoons Wodehouse, a dole-queue Defoe, a pissed-up Pepys...."

"a delicate story of a Dutch painting..."

"an astutely observed skewering of aspirational anxieties and the wellness industry..."

"a novel which few can rival for complexity, cunning and horror. ..."

"a vivid study of pain and of the nature of fear..."

"at its best this is a visceral, vivid and moving novel..."

"a simple idea, sympathetically executed with an eye for the poetry of the everyday...."

"a wonderful, magic-realist feminist fantasy..."

"a drolly enjoyable blend of fight scenes and family history......"

"scary throughout..."

"clever, marred — no, enhanced — by being peppered with (deliberate) flaws and absurdities..."

"800 pages in Shardlake’s company will always fly by...."

"McNamee has found a particularly ingenious, and thematically relevant, twist..."

"Tuomainen is the funniest writer in Europe..."

"the Mitford social setting is a lot of fun..."

"a delicate story of a Dutch painting..."

"strong stuff... as gripping as it is intoxicating..."

"an astutely observed skewering of aspirational anxieties and the wellness industry..."

"While Under The Night does have some merit, the novel is hindered by a number of issues...."

"Bolton's excellent novels are not just skilful evocations of the era but have a genuine darkness at their heart..."

" tremendously entertaining..."

"A thoroughly absorbing whodunnit..."

"As it turns out, the novel is slightly disappointing..."

"although absorbing at times, the novel lacks convincing characterisation ..."

"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-6216195/THRILLERS.html..."

"Breathe ingeniously knits together the killer London smog of the winter of 1952 and the discovery of multiple corpses in Rillington Place..."

"An evocative homage to Raymond Chandler finds his tough hero showing skill and courage even in the autumn of his life..."

"terrific dialogue and much humour..."

"an entertaining read with plenty of plot twists..."

"...something close to a masterpiece..."

"Good Allingham, good war-spy thriller..."

"an excellent historical thriller..."

"engrossing and ingenious..."

"a naturally engaging and elegantly written novel..."

"I can’t commend it highly enough. ..."

"Dark Pines clips along and is effectively immersive. I read it on holiday and it went down very nicely with the wine and sunshine..."

"a gripping psychological thriller..."

"A well-worn tale about an unequal friendship in contemporary New York forensically unpicks our relationship with phones..."

"extraordinary novel..."

"a genuine, read-in-one-sitting page-turner..."

"a mastery of English language and grammar, often missing from today’s crime fiction..."

"It could be the book of the year..."

"Purcell has thrown explicit Gothic elements at this by the coachload..."

"gut-wrenching twists and an engaging protagonist..."

"(a) nuanced meditation on race, roots and belonging..."

"a highly entertaining journey to unearth the dark secrets at its core..."

"Samantha Harvey’s fourth novel is a richly immersive detective story set in a 15th-century Somerset village..."

"a fabulously dark and witty concept, executed with quite some panache..."

"a dark, extremely readable, well-plotted psychological thriller..."

"a drolly enjoyable blend of fight scenes and family history......"

"scary throughout..."

"clever, marred — no, enhanced — by being peppered with (deliberate) flaws and absurdities..."

"a brilliant novel for our times..."

"the master of horror gets cuddly..."

"wonderful team of spy incompetents..."

"Beautifully constructed, it captures the racial tensions of the Deep South and weaves a truly magical spell..."

"While Under The Night does have some merit, the novel is hindered by a number of issues...."

"Bolton's excellent novels are not just skilful evocations of the era but have a genuine darkness at their heart..."

" tremendously entertaining..."

"a delicate story of a Dutch painting..."

"Javier Marias’s new novel is an engaging and unsettling story about marriage and secrets..."

"an astutely observed skewering of aspirational anxieties and the wellness industry..."

"This is Forsyth at his spellbinding best...."

"terrific dialogue and much humour..."

"Breathe ingeniously knits together the killer London smog of the winter of 1952 and the discovery of multiple corpses in Rillington Place..."

"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-6216195/THRILLERS.html..."

"(a) masterfully plotted, compulsive page-turner..."

"an entertaining read with plenty of plot twists..."

"an extraordinarily atmospheric and often harrowing study of obsession and possessive love..."

"by turns gripping and laugh-out-loud funny..."

"a naturally engaging and elegantly written novel..."

"Beautifully written and unbearably tense..."

"Astute, cleverly plotted and scarily plausible..."

"I can’t commend it highly enough. ..."

"Dark Pines clips along and is effectively immersive. I read it on holiday and it went down very nicely with the wine and sunshine..."

"extraordinary novel..."

"The Wanted is brutal, bromantic and breathless..."

"A well-worn tale about an unequal friendship in contemporary New York forensically unpicks our relationship with phones..."

"a genuine, read-in-one-sitting page-turner..."

"(Lehane) remains one of the great, diabolical thriller kings..."

"Purcell has thrown explicit Gothic elements at this by the coachload..."

"gut-wrenching twists and an engaging protagonist..."

"absorbing, beautifully written..."

"plenty of moral ambiguity and some darkly comic moments..."

"Green campaigners and undercover cops face off in this tense, topical novel..."

"Finn plots his own course with a sure tread..."

"CJ Tudor’s assured debut novel..."

"a wonderful portrait of an extraordinary woman...."

"A paean of quiet, pedestrian heroism..."

"In its crafty structure and unhurried layering of dread, this addition to the canon is a brilliantly entertaining read, and offers a chilling response...."

"The Black Prince is a brutal historical tale of chivalry, religious belief, obsession, siege and bloody warfare...."

"at its best this is a visceral, vivid and moving novel..."

"Intensely enjoyable historical caper steeped in the pungent, febrile atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe..."

"Oswald Mosley, anti-Semitism, sisterhood and a spell in Holloway prison are all elements in Connolly’s chilling, thought-provoking new novel..."

"clear-sighted view of a divided America ..."

"a dark, intelligent treat..."

"Although it is densely imagined and beautifully written, these things mount up to strand the book in an uncomfortable no-man’s-land,..."

"a zingy romp that is also a hard-won account of how it feels to change gender ..."

"wonderful...hauntingly poetic and profoundly moving..."

"a gripping psychological thriller..."

"Magnusson takes us on a journey that not only crosses continents, but encompasses tragedy and rich sensuality..."

"Two real-life artistic pioneers challenge gender boundaries and the Nazis in Thomson’s elegant and menacing 10th novel ..."

"superb debut..."

"a mesmerising portrait of a family unravelling..."

"it is immensely pleasurable..."

"Davies is an excellent writer whom you should read, but her strengths of surprise and coincidence don’t work in this longer narrative..."

"Like a good children’s book, it engrosses and races along at a clip, eliciting excitement and emotion along the way..."

"a highly entertaining journey to unearth the dark secrets at its core..."

"Samantha Harvey’s fourth novel is a richly immersive detective story set in a 15th-century Somerset village..."

"a dizzyingly good debut..."

"This is a book to press into the hands of anyone who has decided they have up on "difficult modern poetry"...."

"What Reid’s sequel soft-pedals is the thing that Eliot, the American who took British citizenship, was fascinated by: class..."

" 'a pioneering exercise in merging image and text'..."

"Some of his best poetry was in his journalism, and some of his best journalism is in this poem...."

"If I had read only The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry, I’d still have been grateful for the annual Forward collection...."

"This is a reminder of the poet Kate Tempest is – able, whenever she chooses, to soar above the conversational...."

"It always excites the poetry-lover to discover a new voice — and this first collection by a novelist and literary journalist is distinguished by a true lyrical gift...."

"Intriguing and thought-provoking, the poems turn conventional thinking on its head with brilliant economy..."

"a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful (and) fast-paced..."

"..there is much to enjoy here. Martin’s usual sense of richly irreverent humour is present throughout..."

"A perfect little book about war, grief and peace that packs a mighty punch...."

"A paean of quiet, pedestrian heroism..."

"recounts eloquently the history of the Royal British Legion..."

"Oswald Mosley, anti-Semitism, sisterhood and a spell in Holloway prison are all elements in Connolly’s chilling, thought-provoking new novel..."

"clear-sighted view of a divided America ..."

"Fforde keeps the puns and neologisms coming thick and fast..."

"brimful of its author’s trademark invention, charm and humanity..."

"superb debut..."

"Most of all, Tak Veil’s first-person narration is addictive and deceptively highly wrought..."

"A near-future story about a tech geek and a member of the Chinese elite takes in everything from quantum theory and revolution to shyness..."

"This debut is festooned with cunning punnery, sharp turns of phrase, and jokes about emojis and the internet...."

"enthralling adventure from a science-fiction great..."

"brimful of its author’s trademark invention, charm and humanity..."

"a fabulously dark and witty concept, executed with quite some panache..."

"It’s devastating. Poignant and personal and almost impossibly powerful......"

"a frantic narrative...with in-jokes, pop-culture references and some pertinent observations about diversity and gender politics..."

"an astutely observed skewering of aspirational anxieties and the wellness industry..."

"Intensely enjoyable historical caper steeped in the pungent, febrile atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe..."

"Sally Rooney is this year’s literary star..."

"a thoughtful and gentle meditation on buried passions, regrets, love, grief and loneliness..."

"...revel in a writer at the height of her powers...."

"Gavin & Stacey co-creator’s debut is a soggy squib..."

"the master of horror gets cuddly..."

"In its crafty structure and unhurried layering of dread, this addition to the canon is a brilliantly entertaining read, and offers a chilling response...."

"a novel which few can rival for complexity, cunning and horror. ..."

"Purcell has thrown explicit Gothic elements at this by the coachload..."

"devilishly good..."

"it certainly is a wild ride..."