"excellent... she gives us a strong sense of both the man and his milieu..."

"Her writing is excellent: precise, economical and accessible..."

"Working, blessedly short by Caro’s usual standards, tells you how the best of it gets done.  ..."

"The story of the world’s most expensive painting is narrated with great gusto and formidably researched detail..."

"Without polemic, without grandstanding, she makes the point that the female body is still a political battleground..."

"The relationship between art and our beleaguered ecosystem fires the Australian poet’s new collection..."

"sets out this history in sometimes dizzying detail..."

"No stone goes unturned..."

"There are some awkward facts hidden in this first biography of Apple’s Tim Cook..."

"entertaining slices of writerly wisdom..."

"Wilson-Lee is a diligent historian, a dogged researcher and an engaging writer...."

"a young nurse’s beautifully written memoir..."

"History’s verdict won’t be kind to the British composer..."

"Carlisle quite clearly loves and knows a lot about her subject...."

"a salacious and tragic tale..."

"Bower’s book is fast-paced and readable...."

"A memorable childhood in the chaos of the Caucasus..."

"In this novel-cum-memoir-cum-grand finale, the centenarian US author and friend of the beats takes a wild journey through his lifetime in literature..."

"an impressive account of a medieval warrior’s quest to be England’s first regnant queen..."

"(a) humane and convincing book..."

"a cracking story of an extraordinarily brave woman...."

"The juicy soap-opera life of a great thinker..."

"fascinating, inspiring and appropriately melancholy..."

"one of the most inspiring books about teaching you’ll ever read..."

"An eye-watering account of the president’s sporting sleights of hand..."

"The remarkable story of a model turned sheep farmer at ‘the end of the world’..."

"there is hope amid the despair..."

"a moving record of a life well lived in the face of appalling obstacles..."

"Kalder has selflessly ploughed his way through the written works of pretty much every dictator from Lenin onwards...."

"Patrick Bishop revels in contradictions of Conservative who was notoriously private..."

"Paul Morley mixes sharp critiques of Jackson’s music with frustrating detours..."