" a personal and professional account of a life spent working in forensic anthropolog..."

"An experimental biography tries to domesticate the great novelist, who was scarcely able to tie his own shoelaces without disaster..."

"At once gritty and escapist, it offers timely lessons not just in perseverance, but in nurturing optimism..."

"Bradford has heroically slogged through the 8,000 pages of her diaries and notebooks..."

"(A) bracing, mountain-fresh repositioning of the country star’s story..."

"Having and Being Had dwells on Biss’s unease about her participation in a system whose values she does not embrace, even as she savours its rewards..."

"Erpenbeck’s writing is at its best precisely when she is able to provide us with this structure. ..."

"a captivating triumph..."

"A new biography suggests Joe Biden has picked a VP who will not shrink from tackling the toxic legacy of Trump..."

"He is the missing link between Pam Ayres and the Sex Pistols, between Baudelaire and the Beano...."

"a paean to making friendships across boundaries, to being kind even when the cost is nearly unbearable..."

"Despite biographical gaps, the intellectual seriousness and extraordinary resilience of the 18th-century philosopher shines through..."

"In an eye-popping memoir, the singer describes going to bed with Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Roman Polanski, Michael Caine and Sean Connery while still in her teens..."

"An indelible portrait of the CIA’s institutional derangement..."

"short but inspiring..."

"an invaluably original view of one man in his garden..."

"a delightful sporting memoir..."

"A writer with a stutter offers a thought-provoking defence of disfluency and takes a sideswipe at Freud..."

"seeks to tap into the creative inner life of the country, weaving a rich pattern of stories and poems through the chapters..."

"A rebellious woman’s memoir about her life under the Taliban is moving and gripping..."

"a fascinating sort-of seminar, but not without its drawbacks..."

"The great writer’s passion and resilience resonate anew in Eddie S Glaude Jr’s timely, powerful study..."

"packs in a great number of her words..."

"The Norwegian literary superstar takes pot shots at his critics and cancel culture, and doesn’t care who he offends..."

"Thomas Otte asks whether our then-Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, was culpable for failing to avert war..."

"offers up some memorable insights but it is mostly a reliable and business-like account of a life in sport..."

"hits you right in the feels..."

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

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

"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..."

"Human-sized bunnies roam Britain in a dystopian satire on middle-class complacency..."