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"Now and again a joke lands – but these jokes are saturation-bombed in the manner of a boss-fight in Ikaruga...."

"The book is packed with offbeat, startling anecdotes...."

"offers disappointingly few glimpses of the gaiety and charm so abundantly evident in the songs..."

"Longerich’s imposing volume (first published in German in 2015) is the third but perhaps not final step in a prodigious project in the prosopography of Nazi power. ..."

"This devastatingly scrupulous account of Jack the Ripper’s victims exposes the misogyny at the heart of the myth..."

"A weary, regretful deja vu pervades Crime in Progress..."

"the story of the family’s rise from simple artisans to originators, creators, super salesmen and friends to the rich and famous is extraordinary..."

"these essays can only be defined by what they lack..."

"Chang uses a gripping and emotional personal story to draw Western readers into the history of China..."

"Me ends up, in every sense, fabulous..."

"The writer’s genius for nailing a subject in a sentence lives on in his stinging reviews and defensive interviews..."

"Simms is mesmerized by his own reading of Hitler’s ideology..."

"paint(s) a rich portrait of the enduring friendship between four of them...."

"Wilson, however, argues persuasively that Albert's many talents helped reshape the monarchy..."

"You can dip into this book anywhere and will find delights: all football fans aged from nine to 90 will love it...."

"Some of his best poetry was in his journalism, and some of his best journalism is in this poem...."

"His gifts of leadership and organisation are clearly remarkable: this is a man you would follow into the jungle. Or anywhere . . ...."

"This is a novel that demands much of its readers, and gives much in return...."

"a well-worth-struggling-for drugalogue..."

"Read this book, which is wise, brave and often funny..."

"She writes short stories or texts of unsettling wit and invention..."

"Buy it as a Christmas present to inspire nieces and nephews with an ambition to be a force for good in a world that is still ripe with adventure...."

"This book is brave and moving..."

"painstakingly researched, hugely digressive, wildly overwritten but ultimately moving..."

"Her reporting proves why an independent free press is so vital for democracy..."

"a record, funny and sometimes dazzling, of a way of life now almost disappeared..."

"the writing is so sharp it doesn’t matter much that we may be unfamiliar with many of the baseball, American football and basketball stars under Thompson’s microscope..."

"full of passion and candour and takes the reader right into the dressing room..."

"a worthwhile addition to the pugilistic library...."

"hilarious and shocking... I thought my opinion of the 45th president could not get any lower. I was wrong. ..."

"to instil a love of literature, a copy of Dancing By The Light Of The Moon ought to find its way into every home in the land...."

"Now and again a joke lands – but these jokes are saturation-bombed in the manner of a boss-fight in Ikaruga...."

"The pot-shots are bitingly funny. ..."

"A story can do and be whatever it wants, this collection seems to be saying..."

"it envelops the reader in a warm cosy glow, in which the shadows are always lengthening on a late afternoon in high summer..."

"much, much better than it needed to be..."

"(an) eclectic, wide-ranging anthology..."

"The text of Romanifesto is demotic, full of slang, reliably jocular...."

"Patchett gracefully captures the strange, egotistical logic of childhood...."

"Connolly’s comedy is all about performance, not the printed word..."

"Certainly Kington produced a lot in his insufficiently long life (1941-2008)...."

"an entertaining and superbly well-informed guide to the often mysterious workings behind electoral outcomes..."

"Sharp, action-packed short stories..."

"This powerful, occasionally astonishing story about materialism, status and manipulation is written in Singlish — a Singaporean English patois — which takes some getting used to but adds extra authenticity..."

"An unmissable, multi-layered read..."

"A fascinating guide and a celebration of linguistic diversity and bilingualism..."

"a spoof too far..."

"a no-holds-barred attack on the Establishment’s blocking of Brexit..."

"the market will always be open for books like this one..."

"Bad men and bad sex work up an appetite for tastier dishes..."