"underlines just how extreme the endless quest for success could be..."

"deceptively thrilling..."

"A psychotherapist’s story of a patient who was afraid to remove his clothes is absorbing and moving..."

"a reliably woke take on the Bard..."

"Ben Mezrich hitches his story of technological revolution to a racy human narrative..."

"Casey Cep’s book on author’s true crime project is bogged down by fact-checked stasis..."

"A fasctinating history of the independent publisher, told by an insider..."

"It is among his greatest work...."

"Simply reading the chapter on the monarch gives one the measure of this pitiful book...."

"compelling and moving..."

"(readers) will come away from Miller’s excellent biography understanding why she matters..."

"This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down..."

"brings the poetry to life, but also the countryside..."

"interesting, but flawed..."

"jovial memoir reflects on the challenges and satisfactions of life as a barrister..."

"Edited by Kit de Waal, these essays, memoirs, stories and poems from established and new writers come straight from the heart..."

"(a) touching memoir..."

"Dr Johnson and Boswell recruited the age’s most original thinkers and turned conversation into an art form...."

"Thoroughly researched and wearing its scholarship lightly, The Ministry of Truth is at its best in some of its pop cultural gleanings..."

"masterful...both gripping and surprisingly pacey..."

"squawk-out-loud funny and unexpectedly lyrical in places..."

"Like all odysseys, hers is erratic and strange, and finally liberating..."

"gripping reading..."

"an engrossing portrait of DH Lawrence’s muse..."

" a memoir that proves there’s nothing glamorous about true poverty..."

"While Griffiths’s lectures can be chatty, they are also uncompromisingly erudite..."

"The female (and one male) secretaries whose organisational skills smoothed Winston Churchill’s path to greatness..."

"I don’t see Ellis gunning for bigger game in the future..."