"a red-hot, propulsive book..."

"Rushdie is overly drawn to low-hanging fruit in this smug collection of criticism, speeches and essays..."

"Timely and compelling..."

"A former special forces soldier’s hair-raising life story, from military high-jinks to heroin addiction..."

"Crowther’s book is an admirable dissection of the way Plath and Sexton rebelled against the values of Fifties American womanhood..."

"Paula Byrne brings the author’s fascinating story to life..."

"this moving and unusual memoir also speaks of the pleasure and privilege that leaven the heavy burden of caring..."

"This is a brisk, impudent, utterly immersive novel that also wants to answer questions about Jews and history ..."

"Julia Copus captures the hard times and brilliance of an impoverished, independent woman who was ‘the greatest poetess’ Hardy ever knew..."

"Part of this book’s appeal is that Vickers is so genuinely star-struck. ..."

"This is a remarkable first-hand account of life inside a secret and brutal regime..."

"This memoir needs more of that punchy stuff...."

"(A) glimpse into the real cost of the global obsession with gold..."

"It will not delay you long, but what it leaves will stay with you..."

"A sensitive investigation challenges our understanding of what it means to be missing, and how it feels for those left behind..."

"I’d say Taylor deserves the keys to the city...."

"hums with voracious curiosity..."

"A moving and clear-eyed history of bodily freedoms that takes as its central character Wilhelm Reich, inventor of the orgone accumulator..."

"A learned and readable picture of Renaissance medicine with less comic eccentricity than Robert Burton’s 1621 magnum opus..."

"A highly complex woman pared down..."

"...deep, subtle grace...A Blood Condition has a dignity that honours the past without indulging in any overflow of personal feeling. ..."

"Elizabeth Miki Brina’s memoir about coming to terms with her Japanese-American heritage is warm and affecting..."

"(A) concise and remarkable book...."

"a fresh approach to The Birds director’s life..."

" he is a lucid and engaging companion..."

"If this account is undoubtedly written with the warmth and empathy of friendship, it doesn’t shy away from the shadows. ..."

"Franny Moyle’s ambitious, sumptuously illustrated book..."

"Brandreth explores a temperament on the brink of anger and agitation with immense tact, even affection...."

"This tale of a wealthy widow and her Mayfair inheritance is a historical romp..."