"an involving account of a still undersung saga..."

"magnificently unsettling..."

"Sadly, insight is delivered sparingly, and the shade of Mr Pooter, only without such good jokes, hovers over these pages..."

"The mixture of guilt and exasperation on display here runs through many of these letters...."

"an affecting study of how the law gets it right – and wrong..."

"some brilliant, one shocking..."

"The untold story of an Edwardian detective and her eccentric sleuthing skills...."

"a modern masterpiece of a memoir..."

"a thoroughly arresting account of a success more toxic than failure..."

"Dunn’s lively imagination and scatter-gun digressions are more in tune with his uncle’s..."

"a heart-warming experiment..."

"A new kind of literary biography relives the ‘year of poetic marvels’ that Wordsworth and Coleridge spent in Somerset..."

"Day’s book melds nature writing with urban grit to examine our urge to take root..."

"brims with nerdish, bookish joy..."

"approaches the ambitions and qualified successes of these four extraordinary women with even-handed empathy..."

"transporting, beguiling and terrifically entertaining..."

"an act of imaginative empathy that seeks to understand the monster father and turn him into the human one..."

"a charming fight for rural existence..."

"an astonishingly assured debut by an extremely talented young historian..."

"Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century depicts the writer’s battle with censors..."

"A moving, multilayered memoir..."

"Adam Mars-Jones is a logic‑chopping polymath whose writing sings with cleverness and wit, and yet there is something relentless about this book..."

"lyrical successes – and plenty of imaginative touches..."

"a collection rich in language and dark in tone..."

"more than self-serving corporate history, and that is largely down to Toby Faber’s light touch..."

"raw yet exquisite..."

"makes a deep impact both on account of its own narrative and in the wake of Grenfell..."

"an extraordinary story..."

"provides a powerful restorative in a time of environmental crisis..."

"compelling..."

"gems on every page..."

"combines the sombre and the sparkling..."

"the real pleasure of The Animal’s Companion lies in its stories..."