"The Pull of the Stars is an immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel..."

"With the rigour of the laboratory, Taylor wields scalpel-like prose, putting human behaviours — along with Wallace’s Petri-dish worms — under the microscope...."

"(a) beautiful and subtle novel..."

"quirky, ambitious and ultimately disappointing ..."

"her writing always crackles: it’s gripping as well as grisly..."

"a remarkable end to an extraordinary quartet..."

"an accomplished and addictive addition to the great British tradition of spinster fiction..."

"Despite their sombre subject matter, the defining quality of Mandel’s novels is fun..."

"for all its heady darkness, this tale isn’t as unsettling as it tries to be..."

"A joy to read..."

"The action sequences are vivid and inventive..."

"a cat-and-mouse game played by well-matched enemies..."

"Miss Benson’s Beetle is a joy of a novel..."

"A portrait of a Scots pop firebrand makes for a magical mosaic..."

"A mercurial collection of short stories explores with compassion the frailties of the psyche..."

"Shuggie Bain comes from a deep understanding of the relationship between a child and a substance-abusing parent, showing a world rarely portrayed in literary fiction..."

"full of beautiful prose, powerful metaphors and astute observations..."

"Kit de Waal’s superb collection of short stories..."

"She’s funny, ruefully poetic and effortlessly perceptive..."

"Cathy Sweeney’s startling stories are very short, very unconventional and very strange. ..."

"Haynes offers a fresh perspective on the story of the Trojan war..."

"Doshi’s visceral debut is a no-holds-barred excavation of how hate can both poison and sustain...."

"The Mission House truthfully reveals that the new realities of India will increasingly have their revenge on these tired old romances...."

"He has an incredible ability to capture universal fears in a handful of minimal panels..."

"brilliant and unpredictable..."

"Epic in scope, this is a gripping journey into the dark heart of American history...."

"a tightly plotted and gripping read...."

"Best known as a radio presenter, Simon Mayo is clearly a force to be reckoned with in the thriller world too..."

"The publisher is pitching this as similar to the books of Robert Harris, but this is a more straightforward action thriller..."

" The writing here is sparkling and the detective work, refreshingly, internal rather than external...."

"She lets her tale do the talking, and the results are quite splendid......"

"Straub’s book is one of those smartly observant, wryly witty, big-hearted literary-commercial American novels ..."