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"I was interested in the book. Would I recommend it? It’s a points decision, not a knock-out...."

"His gifts of leadership and organisation are clearly remarkable: this is a man you would follow into the jungle. Or anywhere . . ...."

"the writing is so sharp it doesn’t matter much that we may be unfamiliar with many of the baseball, American football and basketball stars under Thompson’s microscope..."

"it envelops the reader in a warm cosy glow, in which the shadows are always lengthening on a late afternoon in high summer..."

"hilarious and shocking... I thought my opinion of the 45th president could not get any lower. I was wrong. ..."

"full of passion and candour and takes the reader right into the dressing room..."

"a worthwhile addition to the pugilistic library...."

"The 6ft 9in boxing volcano Tyson Fury wants us to see his sensitive side in this dramatic life story...."

"I love all Dee's writing but I especially warmed to this..."

"what is so memorable and indeed magical is the way he interweaves the imaginary and the real..."

"the remarkable and poetically written account of how Gange followed the west coast of the British Isles in a sea kayak from Shetland to the English Channel..."

"A high-energy survey of the politics and power brokers behind the world’s great populist sport..."

"Hamilton’s book is a marvel..."

"some glorious passages of natural history..."

"Warne is no fan of conventional wisdom...."

"Lara Prior-Palmer’s terrific account of entering the Mongol Derby on a whim..."

"the book comes with a beautiful wraparound cover illustrating 42 common shells..."

"...this is a book that’s both eye-opening and hair-raising..."

"engagingly written and deeply researched..."

"a genuinely useful book..."

"a generation-by-generation account of the Dukes of Richmond and their wives, children and proclivities..."

"convincing and compelling stuff..."

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

"A collection of essays forms a paean to a women-only space that is a London institution..."