Editorial reviews

About Notorious RBG

A fascinating look at a remarkable woman.

About Our Souls at Night: A novel

It’s a beautiful book, what I’d refer to as a quiet novel, just about these two people’s lives and how they get to know each other well after decades of just knowing each other in passing.

About Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The future of life on Earth will be decided by small-time politicians spreading fears about terrorist threats, by shareholders worried about quarterly revenues and by marketing experts trying to maximise customer experience.

About The Essence of Malice

I hate to give this one a 3 star rating based on the fact that I haven’t read the other books, but because I didn’t have all the pieces from earlier books, I felt like I couldn’t enjoy it to the degree that I wanted to.

About Defending the Rock

Rankin has chosen an unusual vantage point to view the wider war, and told his story well, but Gibraltar as a strategic key does not altogether convince.

About A Most Extraordinary Pursuit

The second book made so much more sense after reading this one and in my opinion the second book is much better but this book is the necessary book for foundation purposes.

About Death at the Seaside

Death at the Seaside is a fine addition to the Kate Shackleton series: light, well-paced, and stocked with interesting characters and exciting revelations. A near-perfect balance of detail and substance.

About Bluebird, Bluebird

Bluebird, Bluebird is Southern noir at its best, an intricately plotted, character-driven story with a solid twist at the end.

About Sour Heart: Stories

In these gaping fissures and silences, Zhang gives life to a chorus of voices rich with reinvention, a narrative genealogy of what it is to be, to speak and to write across many forms of expression at once.

About The Last Chicago Boss

The Last Chicago Boss had enough to leave me with the feeling that I’ve had a glimpse at what the boys from Lord of the Flies might have been like all grown up.

About Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

“Sing, Unburied, Sing” is many things: a road novel, a slender epic of three generations and the ghosts that haunt them, and a portrait of what ordinary folk in dire circumstances cleave to as well as what they — and perhaps we all — are trying to outrun.

About Thanks, Obama

While the first half of the book is enjoyable, the second half is masterly, rising to a crescendo that is as rousing as, well, a particularly inspiring campaign speech.

About A Conspiracy of Ravens

Terrence McCauley’s A Conspiracy of Ravens will fill a few page-turning hours with some fast-paced action and spy intrigue.

About Murderous Mistral

Murderous Mistral is a novel as satisfying for its mystery as for its beautifully rendered characters and location.

About The Cuban Affair: A Novel

For anyone fascinated with Cuba (like me), this is a special treat.

About The Ninth Hour

The Ninth Hour is also about love, both forbidden and sanctioned, albeit with the caveat that "Love's a tonic ... not a cure." This enveloping novel, too, is a tonic, if not a cure.

About Fasting and Feasting

He’s created a fully formed character in these pages, honoring not only her brilliance but the rough edges that made her human.

About Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook

She has had so much to say about how the rest of us ought to eat that it’s been easy to assume that she always had a master plan to transform the American diet nailed to the wall of Chez Panisse, like Luther’s 95 Theses but with mesclun and goat cheese. In “Coming to My Senses,” she’s eager to show us that it wasn’t like that at all

About The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

“The Far Away Brothers” is impeccably timed, intimately reported and beautifully expressed.