"Wanted: a sequel — as fast as you can pull a pistol..."

"Carnegie and Newbery medal-winner Creech has a magic touch...."

"a charming debut that unpacks the pain of moving home..."

"warmth, intelligence and beauty are testimony to the restorative power of gardening..."

"an impressive feat, achieved with prose that often feels newly minted..."

"Hitchcock is insightful on the limitations of sibling loyalty, poor parenting and the inherent contradiction of life in a small town..."

"a page-turner, in which the reader feels real tension at the perils..."

"This tale from rural Northumberland will stick with you..."

"What distinguishes this well-crafted debut is the freshness of its prose and the way it sidesteps clichés..."

"This enjoyable eco thriller is richly told..."

"an involving, well-characterised tale that feels original..."

"This charming tale comes just in time for Mother’s Day..."

"this rite-of-passage story is compelling, entertaining, insightful and kind..."

"This beautifully illustrated book tenderly spells out the importance of protecting elephants against poachers..."

"This book evokes a powerful and tender relationship..."

"an enjoyably sinister tale..."

" Zeniter’s warm hug of a dynastic saga..."

"Spaced words in a clear and simple typeface, and energetic caricatures by Steve May, make this comic romp suitable for early readers...."

"the ride is stretch-limousine smooth and the evocation of the Hollywood Hills of the Seventies affecting..."

"Slightly sloppy in the writing, this nevertheless scores high with its unflinching detail of a baffling modern phenomenon..."

"grips from the start..."

" it has authenticity and fascinating local colour..."

"This urban duckling becomes something rather beautiful...."

"This what-if novel about loss celebrates life, asking the questions: what would you do with the rest of your life if you knew you were about to die? And would you want to know? ..."

" truly cheering entertainment..."

"a high-speed train journey worth catching..."

"the storytelling is entertaining, comical and breezy..."

"This philosophical tale is a delight..."

"An exceptional read to mark January 27, Holocaust Memorial Day...."

"Carroll writes simply and meaningfully..."

"This appealing book is about losses healed, lies uncovered, cruelty defeated and goodness rewarded..."

"the go-to writer for those that like their science lessons spiced with a good pinch of strong Mancunian humour and lashings of emotional intelligence..."

"Gong’s vivid Shanghai is a place to get enjoyably lost in..."

"The main thrust of the narrative lies not in the legal details but the experiences of a black youth in the criminal justice system..."

"The Boy I Am feels too laboured to count as true escapism..."

"the intensely personal story of one woman being soothed by nature and finding closure in the process..."

"Ostler is very good at conjuring up the 18th century..."

"John Sutherland makes a brave attempt to rescue the reputation of Larkin’s longstanding lover and muse..."

"reckless, marvellous and unforgettable..."

"there are some good jokes along the way..."

"this intimate biography is a sparkling celebration..."

"his mind is better stocked than almost anyone else’s..."

"Lin summons sights and smells from San Francisco to London in a gloriously multifaceted memoir..."

"This, like its subject’s best books, rewards reading and re-reading..."

"(an) enthralling group biography..."

" a luminous portrait of a magical seabird which spans the watery globe ..."

"(a) well-written, well-paced account..."

"Sleeping sickness, strange behaviour and mass hysteria ... a neurologist makes sense of ‘psychosomatic’ illness..."

"In a no-holds-barred memoir, the former US speaker turns his fire on his party’s hijacking by MAGA supporters..."

"a nuanced, intimate and highly — sometimes perhaps overly — sympathetic portrait..."

"A black former pupil’s affectionate memoir describes the limits of progress at the school and the silence at its heart..."

"rigorously researched and packed with detail – and it also highlights the profound moral complexity of the various attempts made to secure their release..."

"Four Hundred Souls is all the richer for its plurality of perspectives..."

"From the famous leg-crossing to a terrible stroke, the actress’s electrifying life..."

"A loving oral history that doesn’t shy away from darkness..."

"The US president’s guilt-ridden son relates his life of excess in detail, but sadly lacks any self-awareness..."

"Authors and the bottle make for an entertaining read despite a whiff of disapproval..."

"An Anglican vicar deals with his drinking, divorce and family history..."

"(a) quiet joy of a memoir, in which honesty and humour are burnished rather than dulled by a certain restraint..."

"his style is easy-going conversational..."

"this is a deeply humane book, and humanly flawed..."