"Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book, set in 1940s Manhattan, lacks visceral intensity..."

"A mysterious column of smoke fills the London sky, in this stylish and funny tale about a journalist on the rocks..."

"A bold novel that might leave you feeling cheated..."

"Here’s an author to avoid if you have a problem with scabrous, pungent fare...."

"a vibrant evocation of a hidden Istanbul in the middle of the 20th century..."

"The novel thrills us with a series of breathless encounters..."

"If you don’t mind the baloney, James Ellroy writes with raw power...."

"a haunting work, charged with wistful possibilities of what might have been..."

"a beautifully written, gripping take on the battle between the sexes..."

"Alan Turing’s life inspires an ambitious prizewinning novel...."

"A road trip through the California desert becomes a thumping political allegory for a divided nation ..."

"absorbing..."

"a superb writer, moving with crisp, swift strokes..."

"vigorous, big-hearted and terrifically direct..."

"This subversive reseeing of the classics is a many-layered delight..."

"a witty and rueful novel about modern London..."

"(an) eye-opening and meticulously researched novel..."

"Spookiness meets science in a tale of human fallibility..."

"both beautifully written, a crisp, ice-cold immersion in the glory of the wilderness..."

"A young man and his cross-dressing friend flee Albania, in a devastating story shot through with subversive humour..."

"Lowe is very good on the passion of teenagers for their friends, ..."

" It’s fun to be in her company. And I wasn’t expecting fun...."

"combining a tough novel about a grim social phenomenon with a fast-paced plot..."

"terrific crime fiction rooted in geopolitics..."

"almost physically stressful..."

"The Panacea Society was bent on creating a world run by women. It’s an intriguing setting for a thriller..."

"Thomas Harris’s latest super-villain plumbs new depths of ghastliness..."

"an engrossing portrait of DH Lawrence’s muse..."

"Two environmentally dystopian visions of a flooded earth..."

"A brilliantly told tale of class, abuse and familial dysfunction marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in fiction..."

"What’s weird and wonderful about Lanny is that it pays attention to and celebrates all the things ordinary people in an ordinary village say..."

"Shaw handles these diverse plotlines brilliantly..."

"James writes with verve about a very modern species of crime..."