"Perhaps the art of Melania’s deal is that she has a rip-roaring eastern European sense of humour and is one step ahead of all of us...."

"Kleeman approaches her subject with a winning scepticism..."

"...Martyn, the difficult musical visionary, thoroughly deserves this painstaking and eloquent biography..."

"a punchy but self-aggrandising memoir..."

"a biography brimming with colour and insight that brings both the character of the man and his many achievements vividly to life..."

"Campbell’s book is not a biography, but rather an act of homage to a man for whom he asserts lifelong admiration: he has been visiting Cloan since boyhood...."

"a frequently fascinating assortment of Nabokov’s hitherto uncollected, untranslated and even unpublished materials..."

"its ravishing execution is testament to how fine a writer she became..."

"a courageous memoir about the challenges of caring for a father suffering from schizophrenia..."

"Edna O’Brien is steeped in the work of Joyce and brings her understanding of a writer’s life to her portrait of James and Nora..."

" A Silent Fury is his chance to right a historical wrong, to honour a memory ..."

"a terrifying insight into what it’s like to be a refugee ..."

"The life and imagination of a transformative cultural figure..."

"shows every sign of having been composed in a tearing hurry..."

"This book has the more poetic apparatus of a quest..."

"a wild, raucous history of courtiers' miserable lives..."

"a fine grief memoir by the daughter of Sixties textile designer Bernat Klein..."

"This is a book that should be in every school, and probably handed out in every place of worship, too...."

"a flowing, thoroughly enjoyable introduction to the life as a lived and passionate thing..."

" Hamilton’s narrative masterfully sets the scene, establishes the cast and describes the action..."

"This is a captivating account of a life lived with resilience and grace...."

"Daniel Smith tells the story of Boothby, the Krays and Goodman in a rollicking tone that carries conviction and reads well..."

"His text might best serve as a crib, much superior to the hundred-year-old Loeb, for those who want to give the original a try..."

"Honest, moving and funny..."

"Talley likens fashion to war; his story is one of survival..."

"Butterfield seems happy to endorse the self-congratulatory, triumphalist tone that increasingly marked the Thatcher-to-Brexit decades..."

"he stitches together the brutality and wonder of their lives with intelligence, judgement and compassion..."

"It’s​ worth asking just how radical the early Wordsworth was...."

"This memoir by an author who always told the truth has echoes of David Sedaris..."