"Kleeman approaches her subject with a winning scepticism..."

"...Martyn, the difficult musical visionary, thoroughly deserves this painstaking and eloquent biography..."

"a punchy but self-aggrandising memoir..."

"a biography brimming with colour and insight that brings both the character of the man and his many achievements vividly to life..."

"Campbell’s book is not a biography, but rather an act of homage to a man for whom he asserts lifelong admiration: he has been visiting Cloan since boyhood...."

"a frequently fascinating assortment of Nabokov’s hitherto uncollected, untranslated and even unpublished materials..."

"its ravishing execution is testament to how fine a writer she became..."

"a courageous memoir about the challenges of caring for a father suffering from schizophrenia..."

"Edna O’Brien is steeped in the work of Joyce and brings her understanding of a writer’s life to her portrait of James and Nora..."

" A Silent Fury is his chance to right a historical wrong, to honour a memory ..."

"a terrifying insight into what it’s like to be a refugee ..."

"The life and imagination of a transformative cultural figure..."

"shows every sign of having been composed in a tearing hurry..."

"This book has the more poetic apparatus of a quest..."

"a wild, raucous history of courtiers' miserable lives..."

"a fine grief memoir by the daughter of Sixties textile designer Bernat Klein..."

"This is a book that should be in every school, and probably handed out in every place of worship, too...."

"a flowing, thoroughly enjoyable introduction to the life as a lived and passionate thing..."

" Hamilton’s narrative masterfully sets the scene, establishes the cast and describes the action..."

"This is a captivating account of a life lived with resilience and grace...."

"Daniel Smith tells the story of Boothby, the Krays and Goodman in a rollicking tone that carries conviction and reads well..."

"His text might best serve as a crib, much superior to the hundred-year-old Loeb, for those who want to give the original a try..."

"Honest, moving and funny..."

"Talley likens fashion to war; his story is one of survival..."

"Butterfield seems happy to endorse the self-congratulatory, triumphalist tone that increasingly marked the Thatcher-to-Brexit decades..."

"he stitches together the brutality and wonder of their lives with intelligence, judgement and compassion..."

"It’s​ worth asking just how radical the early Wordsworth was...."

"This memoir by an author who always told the truth has echoes of David Sedaris..."

"A compelling exploration of the intimate and political sides of an itinerant life..."