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"The scariest thing about the Führer is that he was horribly ordinary..."

"For all its weight and length, Warhol: A Life as Art feels a tad premature..."

"her book is a revelation, because it sees things from Eileen’s viewpoint and shows that Orwell persistently failed to do so..."

"Low is a novel that sounds more interesting than it really is...."

"an intricately plotted book that is by turns stimulating, moving and sometimes mildly pretentious..."

"Her life went from the age of the gas range to that of the microwave; from brain stew to boil-in-the-bag curry..."

"John Bercow obviously intended his book to annoy people, and he’s certainly succeeded in that..."

"It’s a treasure to be savoured as testament of the human will to survive...."

"littered with sharp insights expressed in exquisitely lucid prose but is as amorphous as its title suggests..."

"There’s nothing startlingly new in this pot-pourri, but the mixture of well-digested detail and emotional understanding is pleasing..."

"It is reminiscent of a long-exposure photograph, tracking the effects of time scored through life, and place, and landscape, and the human heart..."

"Tessa Keswick’s mix of memoir and travelogue goes behind the scenes of China’s highest echelons..."

"Hugo Vickers has ensured that Marlborough’s last duchess won’t return to obscurity any time soon by giving us this richly anecdotal and oddly captivating book..."

"David’s case studies are illuminating and benefit considerably from his warm, self-deprecating style..."

" a dense and capacious new history of seduction..."

"Price is a poet, as one can deduce from his prose without the help of the blurb on the jacket..."

"Sam Wasson offers a compelling account of the origins and making of Polanski’s film..."

"The Mercies” is among the best novels I’ve read in years..."

"A medic’s heartbreaking personal account of the loss of her father, and of witnessing the courage of the critically ill..."

"Think of it as non-fiction beach reading for our impeachment winter..."

"insightful and gossipy..."

"as this gripping book reveals, the 1930s was the most thrillingly desperate climbing decade of all..."

"the best motherhood book ever written?..."

" an extraordinarily thought-provoking memoir ..."

"as Karen Jones sets out dismayingly early in her book, the only things that the real-life ‘Calamity Jane’ can with confidence be said to have in common with her legend is that she wore trousers, swore like a navvy and was pissed all the time..."

" the crusading and humorous memoirs of a middle-class ex-con..."

"Harvey fills out the case fascinatingly, to create a view of the country and city in a shifting era..."