"(a) wise and moving memoir..."

"the real healing in this book seems to lie in Roberts’s gift for turning the stuff of the everyday into something so mesmerising that it lifts you into another realm..."

"His writing style may be as pompous as his reputation and as camp as his collection of designer kaftans, but such stories about the fashion greats make for perfect lockdown gossip..."

"It is interesting to see how pragmatically humane the navy could be, particularly in peacetime..."

"Love, adventure, skulduggery, moral outrage — what a story..."

"Disrupting the world — from a small bedroom in Hounslow..."

"The glorious details — lamprey cooking included — are what make it a pleasure..."

"The Snow White tales that Tatar presents here are not as slick as the confections of the Grimms and Disney...."

"In this compellingly candid set of autobiographical essays, the Iranian American author recalls ‘trying on and discarding selves’..."

"We learn from him that memory cannot authenticate, or sustain, an identity: it can only call it into question..."

"(a) remarkable, moving tribute to a house and a father,..."

"Friendship with Kurt Cobain, spats with Liam Gallagher and a brutal chronicle of addiction … the Screaming Trees singer’s candid memoir..."

"as witty as it is problematic..."

"Syrian banker Louai Al Roumani offers a compelling guide for leaders grappling with the pandemic..."

"Reading this marvellous diary leaves me with the impression that whatever the future holds, with young people like McAnulty coming to the fore it will be in safer hands..."

"(a) caustic movie memoir from a gnomic genius..."

"What Have I Done? is heartbreaking and brutal in its honesty..."

"A writer’s struggles in a remote corner of Scotland make for remarkable reading..."

"Inferno is a haunting, eloquent evocation of becoming a stranger to yourself..."

"(a) thoroughly gripping biography..."

"her story (is) worth telling, and Ball is definitely up to the task..."

"he lifts the lid on that underworld of despair, degradation and needless death..."

"Gewen seeks to escape this cartoon depiction of Kissinger, absurd in its Manichaean extremes...."

"A recently discovered cache of letters from the Blitz are funny, moving, despairing, erotic — and always inspirational..."

" a powerful tribute to human fortitude and imagination – and perfect reading for incarcerated times..."

"It is a story that deserves to be told...."

"The physician who treated China’s leaders is a candid witness to corrupt power in Olivia Cox-Fill’s biography..."

"Blake Gopnik’s life of the artist gets behind the glare of his fame to track the dance between art and commerce..."

"This book is as much a story about the children who escaped schizophrenia’s cruel clutches as it is about those who fell victim to it..."

"In sharp but sympathetic terms, and with an eye for vivid detail, Brand revives the strange and colourful siblings of the poet’s grandparents’ generation..."

"The most compelling material here is about the restaurant world..."