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

"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..."

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

"(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. ..."

"a captivating triumph..."

"A new biography suggests Joe Biden has picked a VP who will not shrink from tackling the toxic legacy of Trump..."

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

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

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

"Despite biographical gaps, the intellectual seriousness and extraordinary resilience of the 18th-century philosopher shines through..."

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"He is the missing link between Pam Ayres and the Sex Pistols, between Baudelaire and the Beano...."

"An indelible portrait of the CIA’s institutional derangement..."

"an invaluably original view of one man in his garden..."

"short but inspiring..."

"A writer with a stutter offers a thought-provoking defence of disfluency and takes a sideswipe at Freud..."

"seeks to tap into the creative inner life of the country, weaving a rich pattern of stories and poems through the chapters..."

"a delightful sporting memoir..."

"a fascinating sort-of seminar, but not without its drawbacks..."

"A rebellious woman’s memoir about her life under the Taliban is moving and gripping..."

"The great writer’s passion and resilience resonate anew in Eddie S Glaude Jr’s timely, powerful study..."

"In his new memoir, Britain’s most famous fraudster explains how he conned as much as £30 million out of banks and shops..."

"packs in a great number of her words..."

"Inside the head of an interesting — if self-indulgent — thinker..."

"Thomas Otte asks whether our then-Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, was culpable for failing to avert war..."