"Frances Wilson’s book is as magnificently flawed as its subject – and a work of art in its own right..."

"This memoir needs more of that punchy stuff...."

"(A) glimpse into the real cost of the global obsession with gold..."

"This is a remarkable first-hand account of life inside a secret and brutal regime..."

"The photographer’s biographer takes a breathless ride to a lost world of aristos and aesthetes..."

"It will not delay you long, but what it leaves will stay with you..."

"A sensitive investigation challenges our understanding of what it means to be missing, and how it feels for those left behind..."

"hums with voracious curiosity..."

"I’d say Taylor deserves the keys to the city...."

"A moving and clear-eyed history of bodily freedoms that takes as its central character Wilhelm Reich, inventor of the orgone accumulator..."

"A learned and readable picture of Renaissance medicine with less comic eccentricity than Robert Burton’s 1621 magnum opus..."

"A highly complex woman pared down..."

"...deep, subtle grace...A Blood Condition has a dignity that honours the past without indulging in any overflow of personal feeling. ..."

"a fresh approach to The Birds director’s life..."

"Clever, funny and full of surprises, this true literary original leaps off the page in a wonderfully attentive biography..."

"Elizabeth Miki Brina’s memoir about coming to terms with her Japanese-American heritage is warm and affecting..."

"(A) concise and remarkable book...."

"If this account is undoubtedly written with the warmth and empathy of friendship, it doesn’t shy away from the shadows. ..."

"Franny Moyle’s ambitious, sumptuously illustrated book..."

"Geoffrey Marsh’s diffuse yet fascinating new book ..."

"This tale of a wealthy widow and her Mayfair inheritance is a historical romp..."

"Brandreth explores a temperament on the brink of anger and agitation with immense tact, even affection...."

"Ruth Scurr approaches Bonaparte from an entirely novel angle..."

" he is a lucid and engaging companion..."

"A self-confessed outsider's account of his time at the elite school is nuanced and warm rather than damning..."

"A revelatory biography of the Bloomsbury outsider and influential critic who championed modern art..."

"a furious dissection of double standards – and a rousing study of a brave woman..."

"an interesting book..."

"This memoir needs more of that punchy stuff...."

"In the space available to me here, I cannot hope to capture all that this extraordinarily generous and roomy book contains..."

"In his punchy new book Stop Bloody Bossing Me About, Quentin Letts superbly ridicules 'the bossocracy'..."

"hits you right in the feels..."

"Pantomime misanthropy is tempered with bursts of sweetness in the secondhand bookseller’s latest dispatches from Wigtown..."

"plenty to applaud but easy to get lost..."

"This scientific analysis of humour says it may have evolved to boost sex appeal..."

"The juggle is familiar, but the take is fresh. ..."

"this celebration of amateur dramatics shows we've always been a theatre-loving country..."

"Jilly always makes the reader see through her eyes..."

"(a) fascinating portrait of a comedy genius..."

"Bloom’s memoir is somewhat hit-and-miss despite entertaining moments...."

"Hornby has built a career on capturing emotional nuance..."

" this charming, warm-hearted book proves just what an intelligent, quick-witted woman Claudia is..."

"The line between obsession and addiction is as thin as rolling paper. ..."

"Beautifully observed and full of swipes at the inhabitant of the White House, it is hugely entertaining...."

"essential reading for fans of the Big Yin..."