"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..."

"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..."

"This is not a memoir for anyone looking for a lengthy statement of values or a fly-on-the-wall account of the former Speaker’s political career...."

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

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

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

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

"a monumental portrait of the art souperstar..."

"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..."

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

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

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

"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 ..."

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

"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..."

"Hargrave does a fine job of shaping her raw material into a smooth, well-modulated narrative..."

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

"Lebedev’s is a story of New Russian times, and badly told...."

"Joshua Yaffa’s in-depth profiles reveal the ‘uneasy bargains’ behind Russian political life..."