"demonstrates how much can be done with few words and simple pictures..."

"Gill Lewis uses a neat, if rather unlikely idea to tell two stories of female empowerment..."

"Its insights are inspiring..."

"a charming read..."

"A pacey follow-up to The Hate U Give..."

"a supremely digestible writer..."

"Lipstadt’s clearly crafted answers all make complete sense..."

"heartwarming and heartbreaking..."

"It’s impossible to stop reading..."

"supernatural elements are handled superbly..."

"a thoroughly engaging read..."

"Her entertaining new book is lighter, but also promotes kindness and dips a toe into the subject of family discord..."

"Sweet characters carry an environmental message..."

"a cracking plotty adventure with added science..."

"a vivid, lyrical story with the heightened feel of a fable..."

"witty enough to satisfy in its own right..."

"a tale that has conviction and laughs..."

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

"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...."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"there’s an enviable clarity and forthrightness to Slimani’s writing..."

"Brilliantly disconcerting tales of the human psyche from the Argentinian author of Fever Dream..."

"an arresting piece of fiction..."

"an immediately convincing evocation of time and place..."

"This is an ebullient, irreverent and deeply serious novel in the noble tradition of Mark Twain..."

"As with the best pulp fiction, there’s serious existential heft to this dazzling debut about a pair of toughs marauding around 50s America..."

"extraordinarily taut and compelling..."

"a thoroughly entertaining fiction that serves both as a sort of campus satire and a novel of ideas..."

"a subtle, delicate evocation of modern life..."

" Dear Friend demonstrates how, in fiction, there is the potential to find freedom and escape from life..."

"cleverly blends nimble, sometimes slapstic humour with an affecting commentary on the corrosive legacy of violence..."

"revels in its own complexity, blending humour and tragedy..."

"smart genre-bending ideas..."

"...this sense of the fugitive, the restless characters and their obsessions, that both buoys the narrative and ultimately lets it down..."

"Once again James Lee Burke has created a phantasmagoric fable..."

"a great success: richly observed, lovingly drawn and determinedly clear-eyed to the last..."

"It’s savagely political, disturbing and fiercely optimistic, the deeply felt work of a writer who refuses to stop asking the hardest questions..."

"Roupenian herself, with her transgressive collection, gets the last laugh on an audience that dissected her and underestimated her..."

"(a) remarkable debut novel..."

"French offers a masterclass in unreliability..."

"quietly revelatory..."