10,863 book reviews and counting...

"an immersive and compelling read..."

"Slaght has ... astonishing commitment ... but neither the language nor attentiveness to put his magnificent owl in context..."

"a gruelling glimpse into what it would feel like if quarantine conditions intensified and extended for years..."

"witty dialogue, good description and a good pace make for an ideal summer page-turner..."

"Notable names appear, some linger and a few leave a lasting impression..."

"An extended ramble, literally, which becomes a consideration of life, family and the nature of beauty..."

"All Kassabova’s non-fiction is intensely personal, but her new book particularly so..."

"Gardner, with his eye for colour as well as architectural detail, is right when he suggests that visitors should spend ... more time looking at the building...."

"(an) absorbing, perpendicular odyssey..."

"a fascinating new book..."

"Ernest Coleman’s story of his search for clues to Franklin’s fate is delightfully prejudiced and pugnacious...."

"The book’s stylistic directness is agreeably deceptive...."

"the book brings alive a section of the country that many people overlook..."

"both a celebration and a warning of the fragility of small pockets of wild nature ..."

"a love-letter to America, but the letter of a lover who is now anxious and concerned about the loved one’s mental and spiritual health..."

"The journeys he recounts begin in his childhood and extend into his sixties, covering six main regions and more than seventy countries..."

"There is a modesty about Gentleman’s work: it neither shouts, nor insists on being the centre of attention..."

"Flashes of humour are welcome in a book sometimes clubbed by the dead hand of academia..."

"The book’s richness is in its tangents..."

"a very European story of trade and adventure, of conquest and liberation, of suffering and of courage..."