"This smart and humorous novel is, from the first sentence, rapture to read. ..."

"A hugely talented rising star of children's books..."

"It is a tough time to be a children’s book written in 1957 and reissued in 2020..."

"filled with colour, creativity and warmth..."

"I can’t recommend it enough..."

"an impassioned and original plea for protection for ‘our delicate and changing biosphere’...."

"An involving story with a protagonist we root for..."

"The comic invention never flags in Pearson’s debut novel..."

"brims with wit and ingenuity..."

"designed to be read aloud..."

"a sweet little tale that extols the merits of co-operation and considerateness..."

"so vivid, evocative and stifling in places..."

"the course of true love is strewn with obstacles, heartache and misunderstanding..."

"A great option if you’re a lover of fantasy and mythology..."

"It may be set in a small town elsewhere, but it resonates for the here and now...."

"a lovely book to cuddle up with..."

"a rare and essential addition to books for this age group..."

"a lively and heartening read..."

"A gorgeous and informative paean to plants..."

"Deliciously silly, with hilarious catchphrases..."

"this is enormous fun to read aloud..."

"exquisitely hopeful..."

"Blissfully comic (and explicit) utopian queer romance..."

"a moving story of different lives inextricably intertwined..."

"warm, funny and profoundly thought-provoking..."

"(a) beautifully constructed, deceptively simple story..."

"Offering emotional impact as well as an intriguing, intricate puzzle, Jackson’s writing is original and vivid..."

"Atmospheric and transporting, with illustrations by Chris Mould, this is a delectably spooky Victorian adventure...."

"Asking big questions, this is fantasy for those who like their violent horror breezily tempered by philosophy...."

"It’s rare to find such a programmatic opposition between the procedures of a book and the values behind it..."

"One can appreciate the novel for its quiet humour and compassionate consideration of the everyday, unfashionable and unloved..."

"comfort and wit, compassion and philosophical stimulation..."

"A lightly sketched social history of postwar Britain..."

" Sex and Vanity is a straight-up retelling of A Room With a View. ..."

"a Schrödinger’s drama in which the action spirals out from an enormous maybe, resulting in a paranoia-filled page-turner..."

"Rhodes writes beautifully crafted psychological thrillers..."

"(a) timely and clever investigation of otherness and sameness..."

"The reverse storytelling here is dispatched adroitly..."

"a penetrating and ultimately sympathetic character study..."

"demonstrates a broadening out of his ambition..."

"It shouldn’t work, but it does..."

"A Theatre for Dreamers is a thoroughly enjoyable drama of hedonism, enchantment and emotional beastliness..."

"an exhilarating and moving story of an Ireland in disarray..."

"an indictment on race and class in America..."

"Devolution deftly incorporates “real-world” history..."

"Despentes has produced a rock ’n’roll Odyssey, but arguably with better women...."

"the timing of Paul Tremblay’s Survivor Song is either excellent or appalling..."

"a masterly, far-reaching exploration of a de-industrialized country..."

"Politics and intimacy collide constantly in Tomasz Jedrowski’s enthralling debut..."

"a highly enjoyable novel, convincingly and smoothly translated by Anne Milano Appel..."

"When this novel is funny, it’s seriously funny..."

"The emotional memories of an elderly German woman are brought vividly to life in this quietly moving graphic story..."

"compelling tale of London property noir..."

"deliciously horrid horror..."

"The competing social forces emerging in 1980s Italy are somewhat clumsily embodied through Pieri’s many characters,..."

"This Happy is at its strongest when Alannah is alone..."

"Elizabeth Wetmore takes a multi-faceted look at a serious assault set against the hardscrabble world of 1970s West Texas..."

"The 70something protagonists of this glorious, forthright novel are less afraid of death than of irrelevance..."

"smart and funny..."

"a peerless exercise in suspense..."

"With its bravura picture of a wrecked economy and swingeing death toll, Camino Winds has come to seem all too prescient..."

"No one alive can write sentences as he can. He’s the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf..."

"a warts-and-all look at what goes on behind the camera..."