"(a) touching memoir..."

"masterful...both gripping and surprisingly pacey..."

"a rich mix of literary criticism and impeccable research..."

"What’s most striking about the book is its naivety and simple-mindedness..."

"Thoroughly researched and wearing its scholarship lightly, The Ministry of Truth is at its best in some of its pop cultural gleanings..."

"squawk-out-loud funny and unexpectedly lyrical in places..."

"Like all odysseys, hers is erratic and strange, and finally liberating..."

"The novelist who fled from dire poverty — and what she found when she went back..."

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

"I don’t see Ellis gunning for bigger game in the future..."

"In the 1950s and 1960s, British sports cars were way ahead of the competition..."

"The female (and one male) secretaries whose organisational skills smoothed Winston Churchill’s path to greatness..."

"While Griffiths’s lectures can be chatty, they are also uncompromisingly erudite..."

"gripping reading..."

"The medieval nobleman dared to take on a king, but the price was high..."

"impressively researched biography..."

"After death of his infant daughter, Jason Greene’s memoir on grief is brutally honest..."

"Art critic Ben Lewis tells the complicated history of the Salvator Mundi painting..."

"A story of four girls fighting against Edwardian stuffiness is vividly told..."

"I don’t know whether Lopez is possessed of extrasensory perception, but he’s not short of wisdom..."

"Books on what Socrates was like as a young man, and why the truths can still be found in tragedy..."

"brilliant and cinematic..."

"superbly researched..."

"The British poet’s technical dexterity and way of seeing the past afresh reap rich dividends..."

"Chasing Cosby is about running justice to ground..."