"Bagley’s charismatic illustrations add character, movement, comedy and style..."

"...a brilliant and fantastically told exploration of race in America - and of growing up, too..."

"...an enchanting story, in which elements of traditional fairy tale verge on the surreal..."

"Wilson makes it look so easy..."

"timeless coming-of-age story..."

"Beautifully written, witty, observant and reminiscent of E Nesbit, this novel merits a place in the canon of children’s classics...."

"recounts eloquently the history of the Royal British Legion..."

"a wonderful, magic-realist feminist fantasy..."

"...this dense, beautifully unravelled family saga may be her best book yet...."

"this sequel is just as exciting as the first instalment and just as thrilling, gorgeously written and illustrated..."

"lively action and characteristic precision ..."

"'Longtime collaborators Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre have worked more of their down-to-earth magic in The Legend of Kevin'..."

"Teenage romances are ten-a-penny, but the grandeur of a Norwegian setting is not the only element that sets Lucy van Smit’s debut novel apart..."

"'by CHERUB series author Robert Muchamore: a big, slow-burning standalone, full of tangible detail, sexual frankness and believable characterisation'..."

"'The power of poetry blazes through She Is Fierce (Macmillan), an all-female anthology edited by Ana Sampson'..."

"The writing is as beautiful as you might expect..."

"Laura Dockrill’s brilliantly quirky, friendly text is as full of personality as her books for older readers..."

"...a beautifully illustrated collection of nature poems for children – one for every day of the year..."

"Riddell's drawings lend old-fashioned enchantment to this thoroughly modern tale...."

"Peril in Paris (Egmont) begins a new series for Katherine Woodfine’s Sophie and Lil, detective stars of her bestselling Sinclair’s Mysteries...."

"towering mythology..."

"This is an inventive and touching story, from a novice who writes like an old pro..."

"shot through with piercingly bright, unforgettable images...."

"Onjali Raúf’s debut, The Boy at the Back of the Class... offers a child’s eye view and an ambitious, adventure-filled plot...."

"a particularly delightful anthology of poems..."

"This is a book that should have any child glued to their deckchair..."

"a seductively simple writer, whose crisp, pared-back prose enables an action-packed plot..."

"St John is a wonderful writer, who lets the adventure hurtle without ever making the reader feel hurried..."

"He is that rare thing - a writer of lucid, mature elegance, who can still see the world through adolescent eyes...."

"...she is a brilliant storyteller, whose flair for drama soon lures you in..."

"It takes a bold author to write a tale so reminiscent of Peter Rabbit, but Faber pulls it off..."

"the latest gem in the revival..."

"His reflections on how to nourish the imagination of children in an age of screens are excellent. Until we get to God......."

"a wonderful portrait of an extraordinary woman...."

"What Turbulence shares with its predecessor is Szalay’s characteristically effortless prose, his ability to distil lives into vignettes..."

"age’s eighth novel is many things: a love story, a coming-of-age story, and a brilliantly evocative sketch of Britain in the 20th century...."

"Hodges has a gift for making the reader read, and smile..."

"a determinedly literary novel... there are Shakespearean flourishes..."

"..there is much to enjoy here. Martin’s usual sense of richly irreverent humour is present throughout..."

"the story’s unpredictable shocks may reduce readers to a state of learned helplessness..."

"... the unifying element is the deep sense of goodness that radiates from it..."

"a dark, extremely readable, well-plotted psychological thriller..."

"Coe can make you smile, sigh, laugh..."

"Kennedy offers a gentle, clear-sighted and deeply moving commentary on what humanity really means...."

"a drolly enjoyable blend of fight scenes and family history......"

"A perfect little book about war, grief and peace that packs a mighty punch...."

"Schott certainly puts on a bravura performance, twirling and twinkling with tremendous energy. ..."

"a brilliant novel for our times..."

"devilishly good..."

"scary throughout..."

"A paean of quiet, pedestrian heroism..."

"energetically done, if wearying for those of us who have left our hedonistic twenties behind..."

"Whatever voice Emezi uses, her writing is never less than compelling...."

"clever, marred — no, enhanced — by being peppered with (deliberate) flaws and absurdities..."

"wonderful team of spy incompetents..."

"the master of horror gets cuddly..."

"Picoult’s timing is a Brechtian masterstroke..."

"His work is long overdue a revival..."

"there’s still plenty in Evening in Paradise to conjure the original thrill of reading Berlin..."

"Bleakly funny, incisive, stinging and – in its most destabilising passages – gut-wrenching..."

"Most of all, Tak Veil’s first-person narration is addictive and deceptively highly wrought..."

"A near-future story about a tech geek and a member of the Chinese elite takes in everything from quantum theory and revolution to shyness..."

"original, ambitious and challenging..."

"Beautifully constructed, it captures the racial tensions of the Deep South and weaves a truly magical spell..."

"These 30 tales wittily play with feminist ideas..."

"perfectly nuts – you’ll never find anything like it again...."

"800 pages in Shardlake’s company will always fly by...."

"The pace is fast... sharp barbs and cutting one-liners..."

"McNamee has found a particularly ingenious, and thematically relevant, twist..."

"Tuomainen is the funniest writer in Europe..."

"Kingsolver manages to make her characters simultaneously believable individuals, and embodiments of a generation...."

"In its crafty structure and unhurried layering of dread, this addition to the canon is a brilliantly entertaining read, and offers a chilling response...."

"a cracking good read..."