"a lovely hybrid of memoir, panegyric and queer history..."

"Nelson uses literary sources adroitly, supplementing more prosaic charter and annalistic evidence with moving poetry..."

"A story of violence and corruption in gangland London..."

"A searing account of an insider’s reports from Auschwitz that the West ignored..."

"farce sits alongside horror in this excellent study of the North Korean leader..."

"It wasn’t just Angry Young Men who changed Britain..."

"The life of the great Victorian journalist is a superb prism to view the 19th century..."

"the rise and fall of a band riven with excesses and jealousy..."

"an explosive family memoir..."

"a highly skilful bringing together of diaries, contemporary accounts and the author’s own research..."

"How do we properly judge Lee Krasner’s art?..."

"A redoubtable Scotsman of his time..."

"What lingers in the mind is not the burning injustice but the harrowing comedy..."

"The domestic labour system is deeply flawed..."

"a memoir that promises to linger with you like a literary earworm..."

"(a) thorough success in comprehending not just the world and the age, but the king and the man..."

"Wheeler is as enthusiastic and authoritative a guide as one could wish for..."

"This comprehensive biography offers a 3D portrait of a man who was arrogant and vain..."

"Two powerful books by low-paid women struggling to keep a roof over their heads illustrate the severity of Britain’s housing crisis..."

"a scholastic thriller..."

"a reminder that there is much about 18th-century culture that still seems idiosyncratic or bizarre to 21st-century eyes..."

"a fine-grained and generally very persuasive account of Hitler’s rise to power..."

"like all great poetry – its story speaks urgently to the present..."

"one of this year’s best memoirs..."

"a revealing and affectionate portrait of a brilliant and complex man..."

"a fiercely intelligent trawl through menopausal waters that is not afraid to confront the intricacies of the female body and mind..."

"will come as a large relief to the Top Gear viewers such as myself at whom High Performance is squarely aimed..."

"Nayeri works hard to put names, faces, quirks and favourite recipes to the anonymous numbers we read about – or switch off from...."

"Inspired by a spell in hospital, Hugo Williams confronts the body in crisis with irresistible style..."

"An uncompromising collection of essays whose urgency is impossible to ignore..."

"This stop-start collection of stories and essays only offers hints of the American writer’s droll brilliance..."

"A journalist’s obsession with the infamous murders by the Family unearths startling ties linking the group’s leader to the US government..."