Wade Davis's mesmerizing telling of Mallory's fabled story gives new and revealing weight to the significance of its post-war era and to Mallory's dazzlingly accomplished and courageous companions. Into the Silence succeeds not only because Davis's research has been prodigious, but because every sentence has been struck with conviction, every image evoked with fierce reverence—for the heartbreaking twilight era, for the magnificent resilience of its survivors, for their mission, for Mallory, for his mountain. An epic worthy of its epic.
Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance and The War That Killed Achilles Into the Silence is a breathtaking triumph. An astonishing piece of research, it is also intensely moving, evoking the courage, chivalry, and sacrifice that drove Mallory and his companions through the war and to ever greater heights
William Shawcross, author of The Queen Mother INTO THE SILENCE is utterly fascinating, and grippingly well-written. With extraordinary skill Wade Davis manages to weave together such disparate strands as Queen Victoria's Indian Raj, the 'Great Game' of intrigue against Russia, the horrors of the Somme, and Britain's obsession to conquer the world's highest peak, all linking to that terrible moment atop Everest when Mallory fell to his death. The mystery of whether he and Irving ever reached the summit remains tantalisingly unsolved.
Alistair Horne The meticulously researched and definitive account of a legend... Fascinating and immensely enjoyable
Leo Houlding, rock climber I was captivated. Wade Davis has penned an exceptional book on an extraordinary generation. They do not make them like that any more. And there would always only ever be one Mallory. From the pathos of the trenches to the inevitable tragedies high on Everest this is a book deserving of awards. Monumental in its scope and conception it nevertheless remains hypnotically fascinating throughout. A wonderful story tinged with sadness.
Joe Simpson, author of Touching the Void 

A meticulous and engaging insight into the golden years of one of pop's true innovators. For those who love Bowie - a must.
Mark Radcliffe 

DarkMarket tells you things you will have difficulty believing. This extraordinarily powerful book explores the shadowy world of modern crime, how it knows no borders and how impossible it is to combat. DarkMarket, like McMafia– Glenny's book on the international mafia – demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cyber crime and is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the world we live in
Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah America and its Western allies are spending billions to perfect future cyber war capability, but Misha Glenny tells us that cyber crime is right here and has been for years - hiding in plain sight. Glenny's account of the international police hunt for a hacker known as Cha0, one of the most successful cyber criminals of our time, should be required reading for the world's cyber war generals.
Seymour M. Hersh Nobody writes more compellingly about contemporary international crime than the author of McMafia. Misha Glenny combines a terrific pace with the best journalistic practice and stylish writing . . . Illuminating and terrifying
 (Globe and Mail, Canada)

Misha Glenny's journey through the undergrowth of cybercrime is a dark read. But this most assiduous of writers manages a deft feat He has turned a subject that could be geekish, dull and frightening into an enjoyable page-turner... Glenny presents a host of extraordinary characters as he tells the story of the past 20 years of online crime... This is a gripping tale, brilliantly researched
John Kampfner (Sunday Times)

More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and historian (starred review)
 (Kirkus Reviews)

In this outstandingly constructed assessment of the birth of philosophical modernity, renowned Shakespeare scholar Greenblatt deftly transports reader to the dawn of the Renaissance...Readers from across the humanities will find this enthralling account irresistible. (starred review)
 (Library Journal)

In this gloriously learned page-turner, both biography and intellectual history, Harvard Shakespearean scholar Greenblatt turns his attention to the front end of the Renaissance as the origin of Western culture's foundation: the free questioning of truth (starred review)
 (Publishers Weekly)

Lisa Randall is the rarest rarity--a theoretical physics genius who can write and talk to the rest of us in ways we both understand and enjoy. This book takes the nonspecialist as close as they'll ever get to the inner workings of the cosmos.
Larry Summers Written with dry wit and ice-cool clarity...Knocking on Heaven's Door is a book that anyone at all interested in science must read. This is surely the science book of the year.
Christopher Potter (Sunday Times)

Many books call to mind superlatives, but this one has them all. It explains the greatest scientific endeavor in history-one that is exploring the earliest, smallest, largest, and most powerful phenomena in the universe, and that may answer the deepest questions about the nature of physical reality. Lisa Randall's lucid explanations of concepts at the frontiers of physics-including her own dazzling ideas-are highly illuminating, and her hearty defense of reason and science is a welcome contribution to the contemporary world of ideas. Read this book today to understand the science of tomorrow.
Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor and author of How the Mind Works Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands: a battle on two fronts – against superstition and ignorance on one flank, and against pseudo-intellectual obscurantism on the other. How good it feels to have Lisa Randall's unusual blend of top flight science, clarity, and charm on our side.
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion Lisa Randall does a great job of explaining to the non-physicist the basic scientific approaches of modern physics and what the latest experiments might reveal. This is a must read to appreciate what is coming in our future
J. Craig Venter I didn't think it was possible to write a complex, detailed look at the world of physics that the non-scientist could understand, but then Lisa Randall wrote this amazing, insightful and engaging book and proved me wrong.
Carlton Cuse, award-winning writer of television series Lost 

Comprehensive
Pat Kane (Independent)

The assault on childhood in our corporate-dominated and profit-driven society, painfully dissected in this penetrating study, is a tragedy not only for the immediate victims but for hopes for a better future. It can be resisted, as Joel Bakan discusses. And it is urgent not to delay.
Noam Chomsky 

Eloquent and interesting
Victoria Clark (The Times)

His absorbing account of this Yemeni education offers a window on a closed world: one that importantly, notes the beauty to be found in Islam as much as the lunacy of some of its adherents
 (Metro)

It is brief, compelling and essential summer reading. This autumn it ought to be distributed to every post-GCSE history class in the country. It would rescue them from the footing syllabus at so-called A/S level, which is neither 'advanced' nor 'scholarly' and drags them down a year... It is so uplifting to read without clutter about these 'visions' of England and find an author who is not ashamed to include old favourites in his essay on them. He himself is living proof of their power, inspired as a boy by art and books and as an older man by the garden that he made on a bold scale. He is an answer, one among many, to the deconstructors and under-cutters of the very idea of Englishness. Gardeners will love his book. It is based on conviction and experience, guides to the threads he selects with lucidity.
Robin Lane Fox (The Financial Times)

This twin biography gives us a vivid account if two men and their pitiless times, and of their extraordinary adventures, at home and abroad. Frank's extensive research lies lightly on the nice pace and flavour of her story, and she lets us decide for ourselves on the balance between savage and civilised in the late 17th and early 18th centuries'
 (Irish Times Weekend Review)

Her unusual dual biography is not only a thrilling read but an eye opening account of life in the 17th Century, whether in the stocks in London or marooned somewhere in Paradise
 (Mail on Sunday)

Clear sighted history
 (Guardian)

Comprehensive, fair and well-written work
Jason Burke (Literary Review)

A striking account of the ruthless terror wreaked by both sides on the innocent civilians trapped in a pocket of land... [Weiss's] book is a powerful indictment of the leadership of President Rajapaksa
Jon Swain (The Sunday Times)

So what does the Sri Lankan government have to hide' That's the question Gordon Weiss sets out to answer in this painstakingly researched and referenced study, and his conclusions are nothing short of horrific... he lines up his targets carefully, then picks them off with surgical precision... he gives a brief but illuminating history of the origins of Sri Lanka's civil strife
Margaret Neighbour (Scotsman)

A fair and brilliantly written tour de force of this long forgotten war. A book that is long overdue.
Roma Tearne, author of Brixton Beach 

A cracking read. This book lifts the lid on what many suspected - the West's need to grab Iraq's gigantic oil reserves was the main driver of the Bush-Blair war agenda. A compelling read, brilliantly researched, revealing how the oilmen colluded with politicians trying to outwit a determined Iraqi people traumatised in the aftermath of the invasion.
David Hencke, former Westminster correspondent, the Guardian Since the invasion of Iraq Greg Muttitt has kept his eye firmly fixed on the prize: Iraq’s vast oil wealth. His tireless investigations have produced nothing short of a secret history of the war. As the demand for freedom sweeps the Middle East, it is also an important reminder that democracy without economic sovereignty is a hollow victory.
Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine Greg Muttitt has done a great service with this painstakingly researched, timely book. Armed with a great depth of knowledge of oil, modern Iraq, and international politics, he reveals an untold and largely unknown facet of the occupation of Iraq, giving us a picture that is that is illuminating, informative and objective. On a subject where truth was the first casualty, this book is the closest to that truth.
Tareq Y. Ismael, Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary Iraqi civil society voices ...resound with dignity in this brilliant, comprehensive account
 (New Internationalist)

I much admired David Stafford’s previous book, Endgame 1945 and Mission Accomplished, an official history commissioned by the Cabinet Office, exhibits the same elements of a lucid, flowing narrative combined with acute observations about the varied personalities involved…The mission was something of which both Britons and Italians can be rightly proud and Stafford does it full justice.
Christopher Silvester (Daily Express)

This is by far the best book to explain democratic employee ownership to business people and to the owners of family firms who might be consider a sale to the employees. David Erdal has 'walked the walk' by arranging for the successful sale of his large family business to the employees so he speaks with a convincing authority on the matter. He masterfully spells out the arguments on economic, managerial, political, and social psychological grounds for democratic worker ownership. This combination of real world experience and interdisciplinary understanding of the issues makes this the book on democratic employee ownership.
David Ellerman This is a significant piece of work and I expect it to play an important part in creating a different ownership landscape in the years to come.
Jim Mather, Minister for Enterprise, Energy & Tourism: The Scottish Parliament Erdal convincingly exposes the gross errors in the conventional models economists use to describe people and businesses (which he labels ‘just-so stories’), and describes how and why employee-owned businesses are superior to publicly listed companies in every way. The book is an easy read, jam-packed with quotable passages.
R. Eric Swanepoel (Bella Caledonia Blog)

Already looks like being one of the most influential business books of the year
 (Scotsman)

BEYOND THE CORPORATION gives a breathtaking overview of employee ownership over the years and across the continents and provides a passionate argument of the case for employee ownership. It should be compulsory reading, not just for those of us on the inside, but for any student of economics, sociology, business or politics.
Carole Leslie, Policy Director, Employee Ownership Association 

Labelling Ball a science writer sells his writing short, for its value lies above all in a range that dissolves the awkward silences between science and the larger culture of which it is part.
Marek Kohn (Independent)

If Ball’s book is an entertaining romp across centuries and genres, it also has a target…What Ball does so effectively…is to show why language and stories matter- in effect, why humanities matter
Michele Pridmore-Brown (TLS)

A brave, sane and intellectually nimble account of a topic which only gets more ambiguous with each scientific advance. Unnatural is fascinating and engaging, and a polemic only for cool heads and open hearts when dealing with issues of such serious and profound complexity
Stuart Kelly (Scotland on Sunday)

This is a fascinating book
Jonathan Rée (Evening Standard)

Unnatural is a beautifully-written, deeply-intelligent book that will force every reader to rethink at least some of their preconceptions
Jim Endersby (Sunday Telegraph)

Ball's thoughtful book is a reminder that as we try and deal with how to enable and assist people into being, we need to understand and then conquer our fears surrounding the very idea of making people
Manjit Kumar (Guardian)

Meticulous, witty and sometimes provocative
Patrick Skene Catling (Sunday Times)

Ball's assiduously science-literature approach is very welcome
Roy Wilkinson (The Word)

The two cultures of science and art are not antagonists, divergent in their aims and mutually unintelligible: they happily cohabit inside Ball's compendious, eclectic head
Peter Conrad (Observer)

They who sold us globalisation as a way of the whole world getting richer with fair rules, cheated us by letting the rich and powerful go 'offshore'. This gripping exposé should help end the scandal
Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy In this riveting, well-written expose, Shaxson goes deep into the largely unexamined realm of offshore money. In the process, he reveals that this shadow world is no mere sideshow, but is troublingly central to modern finance, with the US and the UK as leaders. The resulting abuses are widespread, ranging from tax revenue stripping from African nations to individuals and corporations escaping enforcement and accountability. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the hidden reasons why financial services firms have become so powerful and impossible to reform
Yves Smith, creator of Naked Capitalism and author of Econned Trade and investments can play a profoundly productive role on the world economy. But so much of the capital flows that we see are associated with money laundering, tax evasion, and the wholesale larceny of assets often of very poor countries. These thefts are greatly facilitated by special tax and accounting rules or designed to “attract capital” and embodying obscure and opaque mechanisms. Shaxson does an outstanding and socially valuable job in penetrating the impenetrable and finds a deeply shocking world

Nicholas Stern At last, a readable – indeed gripping – book which explains the nuts and bolts of tax havens. More importantly, it lays bare the mechanism that financial capital has been using to stay in charge: capturing government policy-making around the world, shaking off such irritants as democracy and the rule of law, and making sure that suckers like you and me pay for its operators' opulent lifestyles
Misha Glenny, author of McMafia Treasure Islands is the best book on tax havens, ever. It shines a light in some very dark places. It reads like a thriller. The shocking thing is, it's all true. The world's suppliers of corruption services – the bankers, lawyers and accountants working from tax havens – won't want you to read this book. Which is exactly why you should
Richard Murphy, Director of Tax Research UK The struggle against money power is a struggle for human freedom, and Nicholas Shaxson's investigation is a timely exposé of where the plunder is buried
John Pilger, broadcaster and author of Heroes Far more than an exposé, Treasure Islands is a brilliantly illuminating, forensic analysis of where economic power really lies, and the shockingly corrupt way in which it behaves. If you're wondering how ordinary people ended up paying for a crisis caused by the reckless greed of the banking industry, this compellingly readable book provides the answers
David Wearing, co-editor of New Left Project Shaxson combines meticulous research with amusing anecdotes, resulting in a very readable account of the murky world of offshore and a strong moral message that the system needs to be changed.
 (Financial Times)

Possibly the most important political book that I have read since The Spirit Level
Stuart Weir, co-founder of Charter 88, former editor of the New Statesman A gobsmacking indictment of a global conspiracy that makes City bonuses seem like small change
 (The Herald)

Perhaps the most important book published in the UK so far this year.
George Mombiot (Guardian)

He has prised the lid off an important and terrifying can of worms.
Martin Vander Weyer (Literary Review)

Lively and well-written book...
Toby Young (Mail on Sunday)

A memoir that casts an unsparingly harsh light on the bizarre, incestuous, tortured world of Downing Street in the Blair and Brown years… In its quiet, elegant way, Powell’s book is as thorough a demolition job as I have ever read
Dominic Sandbrook (Mail on Sunday)

Goodness it is revealing… the book is fascinating in all its examples of ghastliness
Allan Mallinson (The Spectator)

well written and eminently readable
Claire Black (The Scotsman)

This book is of immense value, not just as a manual of modern government
Andrew Grimson (Daily Telegraph Review)

It’s a quirky, thoughtful take on the impact of The Prince on modern politics
Anne McElvoy (New Statesman)

A gloriously indiscreet political memoir...The merit of Powell's memoir is precisely that it lacks the intrusive ego of the big politician
 (Sunday Times)

The reader of this elegant little work will learn more about the workings of the new Labour court than he will from many weightier volumes, including perhaps that of the Prince himself, Tony Blair
 (Review)

This book... sheds valuable light on the operation of power
Tom Clark (Guardian)

This book is of immense value, not just as a manual of modern government, but because it illustrates the arrogant, unselfconscious belief of the Blairites that they knew best about everything
Andrew Gimson (Telegraph)

Intriguing and engaging... it sets up fascinating parallels that prove there really is nothing new in politics
Carl Wilkinson (Financial Times)

A work of vivid social reportage
 (Spectator)

A harrowing read about the narcowars in Mexico, economic exploitation and the horrors of the globalised drug trade
Fatima Bhutto (New Statesman)

Previously, to understand the ruthlessness, ambition and impact of today's global criminals, you needed to read Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah and Misha Glenny's McMafia. Now, you also need to read Vulliamy's Amexica
 (Sunday Times)

The most vivid book so far published in English on the bloody calamity that has been visited on Mexico's northern border lands
Hugh O'Shaughnessy (Observer)

Vulliamy is the ideal foreign correspondent to analyse the phenomenon. He knows the border well and was one of the first to report on the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez. He also refuses to find easy answers to difficult questions. While some commentators have made glib assumptions about the Mexican propensity for brutality, Amexica shows that the crushing power of the multinationals in a low-wage economy is a key factor
 (Independent)

Ed Vulliamy provides a brilliant, rigorous analysis
 (Independent)

Amexica is fascinating, infuriating and inspiring. Essential reading
Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dog With a great sense of timing, Vulliamy now comes out with the most vivid book so far published in English on the bloody calamity that has been visited on Mexico’s northern border lands… The author has done a great deal of painstaking work in investigating and describing the blood-soaked frontier and the political cross-currants in both regions… it stands that this is a fascinating introduction to the bloody last act of the “war on drugs”, which must surely soon pass unlamented into history
Hugh O'Shaughnessy (The Observer, New Review)

This absorbing odyssey along the Mexican-American border gives pause for thought to anyone who ignores the side-effects of cocaine…Vulliamy’s reporting is faultlessly brave …the scenery and characters he meets are brought alive with vividness and intensity’
Alex Spillius (Telegraph)

A magnificent tour de force
Antony Beevor Part of the fascinating rethinking of eastern Europe under Hitler and Stalin, and opens up a catastrophic landscape
David Herman (New Statesman)

A revelatory account
John Gray (New Statesman)

Snyder set out to give a human face to the many millions of victims of totalitarianism. He has succeeded admirably
Roger Moorhouse (BBC History Magazine)

The figures are so huge and so awful that grief could grow numb. But Snyder, who is a noble writer as well as a great researcher, knows that. He asks us not to think in those round numbers
 (Guardian)

Gripping and comprehensive... revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics
 (Economist)

A superb work of scholarship, full of revealing detail, cleverly compiled from a number of previously little-known sources
 (Sunday Times)

In his path-breaking and often courageous study of Europe’s ‘bloodlands,’ Snyder shows how very much more complicated the story was. His account of the methods and motives of murderous regimes, both at home and in foreign war, will radically revise our appreciation of the implications of mass extermination in the recent past. Bloodlands – impeccably researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material – is the most important book to appear on this subject for decades and will surely become the reference in its field
Tony Judt The stunning contribution of Tim Snyder’s book is to present a synthetic account by an East European historian in which the focus is on the geographic zone where the lethal policies of Hitler and Stalin interacted, overlapped, and mutually escalated one another. As Snyder vividly demonstrates, their combined impact on the people living in the 'bloodlands' was quite simply the greatest man-made demographic catastrophe and human tragedy in European history
Christopher R. Browning, author of 'Ordinary Men' and 'The Origins of the Final Solution' [Snyder] has made extensive use of personal accounts and previously untapped evidence to offer a very human view of what might easily have become just another chapter in the study of politics. The effect is to create an emotionally charged book which gives the victims of the crimes a voice
Anita J Prazmowska (TLS)

Timothy Snyder has written a nuanced, original and penetrating analysis of Europe’s twentieth century killing fields between Russia and Germany, drawing on many little-known sources. History of a high order, Bloodlands may also point us towards lessons for our own time
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, and author of The File Combining formidable linguistic and detective skills with a fine sense of impartiality, he tackles vital questions which have deterred less courageous historians: Where and when were the largest casualties inflicted' Who were the perpetrators, and which ethnic and national groups were victimized' How can one calculate and verify the numbers' This is a book which will force its readers to rethink history
Norman Davies, F.B.A, and author of Europe: A History Scintillating…cogently argued
Christopher Silvester (Daily Express)

[Snyder’s] use of Polish sources makes this book almost unique for English-language readers…superb
Donald Rayfield (Literary Review)

this scrupulously researched history… is the first book in English to explore both German and Soviet mass killings together. As a history of political mass murder, Bloodlands serves to illuminate the political sickness that reduced 14 million people to the status of non-persons.
Ian Thompson (Daily Telegraph Review)

This is a powerful, personal and sometimes controversial account of the human tragedy'
Timothy Synder 

A genuinely new idea about the origins of the universe [...] must be taken seriously
 (Scotsman)

As uncondescending in style as his previous books...many pleasures to be had along the way
 (Sunday Times)

Thought-provoking, edifying
 (Sky At Night Magazine)

Cycles of Time can be highly recommended as an example of how cosmologists are now thinking the unthinkable
 (Literary Review)

Destined to be another bestseller
Manjit Kumar, author of Quantum (Guardian)

Writing about Bob Dylan's music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan's music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours
Jay Cocks, screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylan’s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholar’s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylan’s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylan’s canon that most move him, Wilentz getsstraight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylan’s impact on America, this book will make you think twice
Bill Flanagan, Editorial Director: MTV Networks Sean Wilentz’s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America
Leon Wieseltier Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony ‘encyclopedia’ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research
Al Kooper, musician, record producer and Bob Dylan collaborator It throws up a wealth of unexpected connections
Ian Thomson (The Spectator)

Bob Dylan in America is vital reading
 (Literary Review)

[A] fascinating account of the great man's 'unsteady pilgrimage'
Allan Jones (Uncut)

Rejoice! Someone has something new to say about Bob Dylan... it will reshape your understanding of Dylan
Andy Fyfe (Q)

At once deeply felt and historically layered
Michael S. Roth (Washington Post)

Wilentz is at his best…From the shelves full of Dylan books this and one other…are the ones to read. This is also one to look at…
Bryan Appleyard (Sunday Times Culture Magazine)

Among those who write regularly about Dylan, Wilentz possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance and lucidity. If I may extend the Moby-Dick metaphor just a little here, Wilentz is a whale watcher rather than a whale hunter. He is content to observe rather than possess
 (Scotland on Sunday)

All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylan’s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong – the book is dense and strong everywhere you look
Philip Roth A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz’ Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song
Martin Scorsese 

A succinct stylist, Schama is a master of metaphor, the apt, adjectival phrase, rhetoric and irony, even Joycean parody…This sparkling, effervescent collection bridges the gap between scholarly and popular writing…It is excellent holiday reading: dip into this between the sea and the bar and you will find a subtle and amusing companion.
Richard Ormrod (The Spectator)

An enticing collection of pieces old and new, a bedside book of rich insights.
Peter Preston (The Observer)

It really is very good…witty, learned, informative and clarifying.
Nicholas Lezard (Evening Standard)

His eloquence is on magnificent display in this new book: a delightful collection of journalistic essays…The length of his book, overflowing with purple prose (though very rarely at the cost of substance), demonstrates that, often, Schama does not know when to stop. But in this case, maybe that is not such a bad thing
James Grant (Independent on Sunday)

Wilfully miscellaneous...addictively readable... [Schama] is clever, versatile and extremely likeable
 (Financial Times)

It really is very good... Witty, learned, informative and clarifying
 (Evening Standard)

A very lively and provocative collection of essays and reviews
 (The Herald)

Berlin at War is a well-researched and beautifully composed account, vividly recreating those years of Nazi arrogance, oppression, and corruption, that ended in such terrible destruction and civilian suffering
Antony Beevor Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war…Moorhouse’s meticulous and painstaking research matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail
C J Schuler (Independent)

The greatest achievement of Moorhouse’s book is that it manages to capture the complexities and contradictions of life in Hitler’s Germany, illuminating the experiences of those who were victims, perpetrators or both. In doing so it provides something rare: a popular-history account that will satisfy both general readers and professional historians
 (Irish Times)

Moorhouse's evocative social history...brings...the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings of the ordinary Germans who lived here
 (Telegraph)

Few books on the war genuinely increase the sum of our collective knowledge... but this one does
 (Financial Times)

Measured, sympathetic... a fascinating corrective...thorough and engaging
 (Mail on Sunday)

A well-researched, fluently-written and utterly absorbing account of what life (and, so very often) death was like for ordinary Germans in the capital of Hitler’s Reich during the Second World War. The Berliners’ capacity for suffering, for sacrifice, for self-delusion, but also astonishingly for love - and even on occasion humour - is superbly evoked by Moorhouse’s cornucopia of new information.
Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War 

Paul Bloom is among the deepest thinkers and clearest writers in the science of mind today. He has a knack for coming up with genuinely new insights about mental life — ones that you haven't already read about or thought of — and making them seem second nature through vivid examples and lucid explanations
Steven Pinker How Pleasure Works has one of the best discussions I’ve read of why art is pleasurable, why it matters to us, and why it moves us so
Daniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music This book is not just a pleasure, but a revelation, by one of psychology’s deepest thinkers and best writers. Lucid and fascinating, you’ll want to read it slowly and savor the experience.
Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness In this eloquent and provocative book, Paul Bloom takes us inside the paradoxes of pleasure, exploring everything from cannibalism to Picasso to IKEA furniture. The quirks of delight, it turns out, are a delightful way to learn about the human mind

Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide Following the path of pleasure, Bloom leads us through a menagerie of human strangeness. By the end of the trip, the ‘magic inside us' begins to make sense. This book is a pearl, a work of great beauty and value, built up around a simple truth: that we are essentialists, tuned in to unseen order
Jonathan Haidt, author of The Happiness Hypothesis 

A stirring, perceptive retelling of an endlessly fascinating battle
 (Kirkus)

Philbrick humanizes history, not only putting a recognizable face on the players in one of America's most notorious events but also providing insight into their hearts and minds
 (American Library Journal)

Philbrick writes a lively narrative that brushes away the cobwebs of mythology to reveal the context and realities of Custer's unexpected 1876 defeat at the hands of his Indian enemies under Sitting Bull... compelling
 (Publishers' Weekly)

As brilliant an example of combat reconstruction as one is likely to find in any history of this scope and ambition
Trevor Royle (Sunday Herald)

A mesmerising portrait of two extraordinary individuals and a thrilling blow-by-blow account of a landmark battle, it is a terrific achievement
Dominic Sandbrook (The Sunday Times)

Philbrick recounts this story wth the clarity, colour and pace of a first-rate movie
Raymond Seitz (Literary Review)

An absorbing retelling of the greatest western of all. Philbrick is a stunningly evocative historian. It is a captivating story
Dan Jones (The Times)

The Last Stand will, I am sure, be widely read this summer. It is gripping stuff and beautifully written
 (Telegraph)

Philbrick recounts this story with the clarity, colour and pace of a first-rate movie
 (Literary Review)

Comprehensive and engrossing
Brian MacArthur (Literary Review)

The story that McLynn tells is indeed an epic ... McLynn's comprehensive and engrossing account
 (Literary Review)

An honest, gruelling account of the longest most punishing campaign fought by the British during the Second World War
 (Times)

Easily one of the best books he has written in a long and distinguished career
 (Sunday Herald)

Striking and original
John Carey (The Sunday Times)

A challenging book…full of complex and deeply interesting ideas
Sam Leith (Spectator)

Uncommonly brilliant and deeply stimulating... almost cinematically satisfying. Harman has a rare gift for bringing ideas and thinkers to life
Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic I stayed up a good part of the night reading... fascinating! ... Harman proves that the lives of some modern scientists are as ecstatic, tormented and filled with strange visions as those of medieval saints
Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind A terrific book, at once scholarly and impossible to put down
Peter Godfrey-Smith, professor of philosophy at Harvard University A fascinating trawl through the borderland where science and society intertwine
 (The Big Issue)

The Price of Altruism puts Price's work into a wide scientific and social context
 (New Scientist)

Extremely well researched and written with great love of the subject.
Frans de Waal (New York Times)

This is a book for anyone interested in the question, first posed by Darwin himself, of how we ended up with so much kindness in a natural world customarily depicted as “red in tooth and claw.” Price struggled with it on an intensely personal level. His story is highly relevant at a time when greed as the basis of society has lost much of its appeal
Frans de Waal (New York Times)

Beautifully written, Harman's book does justice both to its sensitive subject matter and to the life of a very special, complex and ultimately tragic man.
 (Waterstone's Books Quarterly)

A masterfully told story that edifies while it engages, this book is in the same class as Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind and could be as popular.
 (American Library Journal)

Oren Harman’s compelling new book explores one of the key questions of our era — what are the origins of altruism' A little known mathematician lies at the heart of the story. George Price recognised that acts of kindness and self-sacrifice stood blatantly opposed to most of the principles of modern Darwinism. Harman’s wide-ranging intellectual quest brings this shy, anguished, and fascinating man alive with style and passion, and reminds us of the powerful emotions that can fuel great scientific achievement.
Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin One of the great mysteries of nature is how evolution, as it selects for survival of the fittest, could possibly leave any room for altruism. In this remarkable book, Oren Harman tracks George Price, an awkward, disturbed, and profoundly, almost saintly scientist as he cracked this fundamental biological problem. It is an astonishing story at every level, from the destitute wanderings and genial interventions of Price to a revealing account of how modern evolutionary biology took its contemporary form.
Professor Peter Galison 

Disturbing... powerful account...shocking reading
 (Sunday Times)

Remarkable book
 (Daily Telegraph)

Timely, ambitious and moving
 (Scotsman)

[A] fascinating and inspiring book
 (Times)

An extraordinary account... fascinating and inspiring
Stephen Robinson (The Sunday Times)

Digestible form with valuable contextual notes. There are many fleeting gems
 (Observer)

The historical value of this evidence is enormous
Noel Malcolm (The Sunday Telegraph)

This invaluable book brings us history in real time. with its echo of voices of civilians now on the front line, Listening to Britain provides a matchless insight into the contradictory, confused and complex experience of living through Britain's 'finest hour'
Juliet Gardiner (Financial Times)

A lively, indeed passionate, retelling of the ‘Pilgrim’ story, full of surprises as Nick Bunker delves into the byways of how the voyage of 1620 came to be and how the pilgrims managed to survive. A terrific read

David D. Hall, Harvard University His spirit, zeal and flair put most historians of his subject to shame’
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Times)

An imaginative and archivally rich evocation of the Mayflower pilgrims and of the lands they invaded
Linda Colley In this beautifully written and imagined book, impeccably researched, and full of so many fresh insights and discoveries, Nick Bunker has given us the most grounded and convincing portrait yet achieved of what drove the Pilgrim Fathers to seek their faith and fortune in the New World
Michael Wood I have rarely read a book which combines such a breadth of canvas...with such penetrating and detailed research
Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University Essential reading for those who think they know the story... pure pleasure for those who are new to the subject
 (BBC History Magazine)

Nick Bunker's vivid style and bold analysis infuse this book with colour and pace
 (Literary Review)

This book's sensitivity to the meaning of landscape should influence travel writers and historians for years to come
 (Sunday Times)

This...history has made those supposedly dull Puritans crackle with narrative energy and fizz with vibrant colour as never before
 (Daily Express)

An honest, intensive attempt to reconstruct the nemal world of the first Pilgrims, and the topography of the new lands
 (Times Literary Supplement)

Offers a remarkably fresh take on... an old and well-worn story
John Demos (Washington Post)

Shephard does not seek to draw pat lessons or modern conclusions from any of this. He is content to tell us what happened next, in detail, and often vividly…a riveting and often entirely fresh story, shrewdly assembled, very well told.
Peter Preston (Guardian Review)

Ben Shephard’s account of his demanding and important subject is a triumph, his has unearthed new and moving testimony by former DPs and has burrowed into official and personal papers without ever letting his deep scholarship get in the way of the riveting story he has to tell…With a sureness of touch he interweaves the personal stories of those who were involved in the allied relief effort at all levels …For anyone who is curious about the coalition of interests and beliefs which slide across this particularly American see-saw, reading Shepherd’s brilliant book is a must
Nicholas Stargardt (History Today)

Ben Shephard’s impressively readable account is replete with detailed personal testimony. It is a reminder not only of the real achievements of relief workers in the 1940s, but also of the continuing problem of refugees across the globe, many of whom – as in Iraq – have suffered the consequences of far less satisfactory programmes of relief and reconstruction
 (TLS)

It's amazing, a really fine achievement and has a wonderful balance between argument and narration, where the individual stories draw the reader in to the moral and emotional complexities, while the sense of structure and proportion gives it a very strong sense of being in safe hands
Nick Stargardt, author of 'Witnesses of War' Excellent…his research is meticulous. He writes well with a keen eye for detail. His judgments are trenchant and he dishes out praise and blame with an even hand…What emerges most strikingly is the intricate mixture of motives behind the rescue of post-war Europe
 (Independent)

To do the subject justice…requires an in-depth knowledge of a vast number of topics…It requires a feel for ethnic and religious sensitivities, as well as a profound compassion for the plight of millions of people affected by the war. Ben Shephard has these qualities in spades, accompanied by a rare gift for condensing huge amounts of primary research into manageable chapter…Difficult to seen how it could be bettered
 (Daily Telegraph)

Deeply impressive…well-researched, well-written and often moving
 (New Statesman)

In this excellent history, Shephard unforgettably conveys the post-war refugee crisis and its aftermath. Even today, thousands of DPs remain unaccounted for or, in the Red Cross parlance, 'dispersed’. The Long Road Home speaks for them by proxy and with proper sympathy
 (Sunday Telegraph)

This enthralling story about how wars do not stutter out but take generations to fix …deals with big issues and human suffering on a scale which is different from the now well rehearsed and widely avilable accounts of the Holocaust…Ben Shephard’s uniformly excellent history shows that reconciliation and closure for war’s victims are possible, but they require imagination, planning, and endless hard work
 (Sunday Herald)

Absorbing and deftly researched…a thoughtful retelling of an important and timely story
 (Literary Review)

This is an amazing book full of incredible people all of whom turn out to be real and unbelievable stories, all of which turn out be true. Against a backdrop of late nineteenth century Europe and America in which staggering industrial progress went hand-in-hand with mass poverty and class struggle, Butterworth brilliantly teases out the paths and plots of the dedicated revolutionaries, deadly dilettantes, spies, informants, agents provocateurs, false counts and femmes fatales who made up the international anarchist movement, and its enemies. A genuine tour de force
David Aaronovitch An impressive work which will captivate those unfamiliar with anarchist history and teach even specialists much
 (Independent)

Butterworth, in this wide-ranging account... does justice to both sides of the picture - the glowing ideal, its shady enactment
 (Telegraph)

Exhilarating... Almost any paragraph packs more action than an entire Dan Brown novel
 (Financial Times)

This is an exhilarating gallop through the history of anarchism
 (Financial Times)

Alex Butterworth writes lucidly, in fine detail, seeking answers that must sometimes prove elusive across this milling stage...It's a formidable task, formidably (and entertainingly) accomplished
 (Guardian)

This is a thrilling and important book
James McConnachie (Sunday Times)

A narrative taut with intrigue and freighted with contemporarysignificance
Bryce Christensen (Booklist)

Intriguing, provocative and written with a novelist's eye for detail, this book is an engrossing journey into a murky, subterranean world.
Mike Rapport (BBC History Magazine)

Historian Butterworth makes a first-rate addition to the growing list of books dealing with terrorism's origins and history... Delivering a virtuoso performance, Butterworth adds the hope that history will not repeat itself and that a successful new bloody ideology will not create the next scourge
 (Publisher's Weekly)

One of the most absorbing depictions of the dark underside of radical politics in many years. … Butterworth has opted to present the anarchists in a mode that emphasises narrative over analysis. The result is a riveting account, teeming with intrigue and adventure and packed with the most astonishing characters. One cannot help wishing there were more extended analysis, however, for when Butterworth does offer broader observations, they are exceptionally astute.
John Gray (New Statesman)

In this rich and passionate account of the world’s first international terrorist campaign ... the disquieting echoes of our own times are impossible to ignore ...In a brilliant move, Butterworth also pursues the counterplotters and agents provocateurs behind what he calls the “first international ‘war on terror’' ” ... underpinned by impressive research and a genuine argument ... this is a thrilling and important book — not least for its unmasking of the forces of reaction.
 (Sunday Times)

Sweeping, extensively researched
Leo McKinstry (Express)

Compelling and insightful… The World That Never Was is a compelling narrative history both of a generation of demonised and battered – but optimistic – revolutionaries…and of the political police forces ranged against them
Stuart Christie (Guardian)

Excellent and provocative new history
John Campbell (Mail on Sunday)

In many ways Speak for Britain! offers an admirable model of how political history should be written. Whatever your politics, you will enjoy grappling with Pugh's vigorous, original and robustly argued opinions.
Jonathan Rose (Times Literary Supplement)

Overall the book is… spliced with incisive arguments and interspersed with challenging verdicts on Labour’s evolution…This ambitious Labour history could well become compulsory reading for future party leaders
John Shepherd (History Today)

Solid and lasting... thoroughly resourced and researched
 (Sunday Telegraph)

The most provocative and clear-eyed history of the party yet... almost everybody will learn something new from this thoughtful book
 (Sunday Times)

Stimulating survey
 (Literary Review)

Worth it for serious students
 (The Times)

Pugh's Historiography is exceptionally broad and deep
 (Times Literary Supplement)

This engrossing book will fascinate would-be explorers, foreign policy buffs and all those who care about our global environment. Charles Emmerson shows why the world’s ice cap is where much of our world’s future history will be written
Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the International Crisis Group; Former European Union Commissioner for External Affairs Deeply insightful...His account is always clear-headed and elegant, weaving an extraordinary range of subjects into a compelling narrative
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum A fascinating, personal and visionary book. Splendid
Lord Nicholas Stern As reviving as a blast of polar air... one of the most impressive accounts of the contemporary Arctic I've read
Joanna Kavenna (Spectator)

Explores and greatly extends the issues ... and insightful analysis
 (Times Literary Supplement)

Commended for [its] crisp, easily digestible prose...clarity...avoidance of sentimentality or over-obsessive attention to detail
 (Observer)

Imbued with its author's deep sensitivity to shifting atmospheres, his overwhelming passion for England, Wales and Scotland as living bodies pulsing, breathing, twitching beneath our feet, and his contagiously personal view of his subject.
Jonathan Keates (Observer)

A superbly exciting work of popular scientific writing
AN Wilson (The Financial Times)

A very well written book about geology and geological history
 (Sir David Attenborough, The Times)

We have a new classic... this is popular science at its best; it's beautifully written, constantly witty and excellently illustrated.
 (Financial Times)

A truly fascinating and eye-opening account of a phenomenon so commonplace we barely think about it, yet one which is also mind-bogglingly complicated. Once you’ve read The Music Instinct, you’ll never listed to music the same way again
Doug Johnstone (Independent)

Remarkable capacity to use words to open our ears
Damian Thompson (Sunday Telegraph, Book of the Week)

If you try listening to music after reading this book, you’ll probably hear it differently – more knowingly, even
Tom Payne (Telegraph)

This book surveys current thinking and tells you why music rocks
rev’d Iain Finlayson (Times)

I defy anyone to read this book without coming away better informed about why music affects us in such a profound way... His passion for music is evident on every page, and his enthusiasms are infectious.
Bee Wilson (The Sunday Times)

Fascinating
 (Waterstone's Book Quarterly)

An intelligent and open-minded work
 (Word)

Impressively engaging...it will be the rare music lover that does not come away without having learned meant interesting things
 (Guardian)

Wonderful account of why music matters... one of the finest and most versatile of current nonfiction writers
 (Sunday Times)

Publishing would be a far better place if popular science books were all as truly scientific in spirit as this
 (Independent)

A remarkable achievement
 (Classic FM Magazine)

[A] close-knit account
 (Daily Express)

Pitt was the hero...He was, as Edward Pearce argues in this revisionist biography, the show business man of war
 (The Spectator)

[Pearce] constantly, often illuminatingly and sometimes wittily, draws parallels between the English politics of Pitt's time and more recent events or personalities
Stephen Howe (The Independent)

Pearce enlivens the narrative with crisp characterisations of the figures on the stage
 (The Oldie)

This is an immensely readable book - informative, scholarly, but never dry
 (The Tablet)

Holy Warriors is not only very readable, its skilful and detailed use of source material serves as a showcase of what is being done in this, the most intensively studied area of medieval historiography
Robert Irwin (Literary Review)

He [Phillips] has a real gift for highlighting the picturesque and for bringing the past alive... with its crisp management, accessible style and deft characterisation, this book stakes a strong claim to be the most appealing narrative account of the Crusades for a general audience
 (BBC History Magazine)

A superb book, one written with an elegant blend of clarity and zest. Its author demonstrates his mastery of all the relevant scholarship, from the oldest to the most recent, but he may be most successful in his ability to capture the spirit of the various crusades through word portraits of some of their most memorable human characters. Readers will find it difficult to put this gripping book down.
William Chester Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University Original, engaging, fast-paced, this is history at its best. Phillips lays bare the complex history of the period, both past and its long-term consequences. Poets, knights, politicians, schemers, queens, celebrated and forgotten, all are brought to life in this wonderful A - Z of the Crusades.
 (Kate Mosse)

Why Women Have Sex is an endlessly well informed and irresistibly readable book...the most fascinating and illuminating look at female sexuality since Kinsey’s Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female.
 (Mary Roach, author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex)

Why Women Have Sex is a fascinating tour of what psychology and biology can tell us about women’s sexual motivation. Meston and Buss are first-rate scientists and skilled writers who actually answer the question that everyone was afraid to ask.
 (Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness)

The most thorough taxonomy of sexual motivation ever compiled.
John Tierney (The New York Times)

[a] balanced account of the band’s journey from reckless idealists to astute, weary businessmen
 (Record Collector)

Doggett's book... is a real page turner
Annie Lennox (Harper's Bazaar)

An enthralling new book on the group
David Lister (Independent)

An admirably unstarry-eyed path through the breakup of the band and beyond
 (Metro)

Dropping like a howitzer shell amid a rare ceasefire between Capm Yoko and Macca HQ, there’s something mischievous in the timing of Peter Doggett’s latest decostructino of ‘60s mythoculture
Danny Eccleston (Mojo)

A breath-taking record of uncontrolled fame’s grotesque side-affects
Victoria Segal (Q Magazine)

A page-turner, and for its genre and uncharacteristically literate one. The shelf of Beatles reads is short, but You Never Give Me Your Money belongs on it
Christopher Bray (Literary Review)

Mortimer creates a new and convincing likeness of medievals England’s most iconic king
Nick Rennison (Sunday Times)

Ian Mortimer's 1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory is compelling, exuberant and erudite – combining the vivid drama of medieval character and battle with the vigour of revisionist history
 (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin)

Mortimer is a good historian, and his account of Henry V and of Agincourt is well worth having
Richard Barber (Literary Review)

Bold…new and unexpected
Ann Wroe (The Economist)

Ian Mortimer… has virtually single-handedly put medieval history back in the hands of ordinary readers, combining scrupulous research with a wonderfully iconoclastic approach to storytelling
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)

Mortimer writes biographical history with formidable energy and panache... His method is an enthralling experiment in time-travel: this book takes the year of Agincourt a day at a time, building an in-depth picture of how those who lived through it experienced events. At times it reads like a novel, at times it offers subtly nuanced back story. This is the most illuminating exploration of the reality of 15th-century life that I have ever read.

Christina Hardyment (Independent)

A fascinating new book
Daniel Finkelstein (Times)

Mesquita offers zingily provocative contemporary policy ideas
 (Guardian)

Fruitful reading that will make it difficult to look at the world through quite the same eyes as in one’s virginal, pre–game theory days
 (Kirkus Reviews)

Organized thought applied to problems can illuminate and help solve them. This easy and enjoyable read is, in many ways, a how-to book for that very purpose
George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has demonstrated the power of using game theory and related assumptions of rational and self-seeking behavior in predicting the outcome of important political and legal processes. No one will fail to appreciate and learn from this well-written and always interesting account of his procedures
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Predictioneer teaches us that we can predict how a conflict may be resolved if we carefully consider the incentives for all parties in the conflict. In an extraordinary range of applications, from ancient history to tomorrow's headlines, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita demonstrates the power of the game-theoretic approach
Roger B. Myerson, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Professor, University of Chicago 

Wide scope, smooth delivery, and mastery of the data
 (www.popularscience.co.uk)

Since it’s publication The Emperor’s New Drugs has helped to usher in sweeping changes in the way prescriptions are handled by those that practice ethically
Kaye Bewley (Human Givens Journal)

A beautifully written, profoundly important book that is sure to shake up the psychiatric establishment and pharmaceutical industry. Many readers will be excited, and probably disturbed, by this brilliant and shocking expose of the lack of efficacy and dangers of the most popular antidepressant medications. The author also reveals the astonishing lack of evidence for the widely believed but poorly validated theory that depression and anxiety result from a chemical imbalance in the brain. This book is long overdue and I hope that people will pay attention. Kudos to Dr. Kirsch!
David D. Burns M.D., author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Irving Kirsch brilliantly documents a grim scandal of regulatory and clinical failures concerning antidepressants but also holds out hope in one of the most profound meditations for 50 years on the nature and role of the placebo effect in clinical care
David Healy, author of Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression A terrific account of how optimism, greed and scientific incompetence have misled us about the nature of depression and the drugs we throw at it
Druin Burch, author of Taking the Medicine A fascinating and disturbing book
 (Literary Review)

Kirsch's account of the background and assumptions of the 'chemical imbalance' theory of depression is helpfully clear, and his damning critique convincing. Similarly, his explanation of placebos and how they work allows the reader to get to grips with some fascinating possibilities.
David Smail (Times Higher Education Supplement)

Her pages are packed with provocative observations and cunning insights. I’d highly recommend this fascinating book to any parent of a young child – and, indeed anyone who has ever been a baby
Josh Lacey (Guardian)

Professor Greiner, in this admirable translation by Anne Wyburd and Victoria Fern, scrupulously argued and carefully referenced, explains the failure of what is now known as the moral component of warfare, and therefore exactly how it was that the US lost
Allan Mallinson (The Times)

A well-documented essay…an astonishing final section
Richard Gott (New Statesman)

This comprehensive indictment of the Vietnam war was published first in Germany in 2007. One wonders how long it will be before a similar book can be written about the dehumanising effect on a new generation of American soldiers of the Iraq war, also fought against a guerrilla enemy in a foreign land.
Conor O’Clery (Irish Times)

O’Keeffe has done an exhilarating job
Emma Crichton-Miller (Evening Standard)

Haydon’s story is essentially tragic but it has many elements of comedy, even high farce, and Paul O’Keeffe’s biography brings the comedy to the fore with an enviable lightness of touch
Peter Burton (Daily Express)

Haydon’s story is one of the great cautionary tales in art history, and it still has the power to shock, even after 150 years: there is barely a page in Paul O’Keeffe’s new biography on which this reviewer has not written in the margin either “oh no” or “Oh God”…O’Keeffe’s book largely refrains from psychological speculation, and I can’t decide whether that’s a good thing. What is definitely a good thing, though, is the way Haydon’s tragedy is presented as a human story, with many down-to-earth facts
Lynne Truss (Sunday Times)

O’Keeffe has produced a fascinating study of a forgotten life that is rich in detail for fans of period drama
Mark Williamson (The Herald)

This excellent book- beautifully written and well researched - recalls a man who ought not to be forgotten
 (Contemporary Review)

tactful and unobtrusive … Hayden steps forth, as full of colour and bluster as ever, but with dignity as well as absurdity, and a perspicacious, as well as biting, tongue
Gregory Dart (TLS)

Packed with noisy enthusiasm, punchy arguments and verbal agility... An excessively gifted communicator, [Schama] knows how to sweep facts and argument into a powerful, fluent narrative
 (The Independent)

Power of Art feels as if it has been written in one breathless burst of enthusiasm, in a prose style that crackles like electricity
 (Sydney Morning Herald)

A stunning work, resounding with profound insights which rivet the attention... A beautifully conceived and presented book from the professor of art history at Columbia University, New York. There must be few others in the world who could equal it
 (Western Daily Press)

Powerfully vivid story-telling... Schama is a powerful communicator, and it is a joy to witness him explore the extraordinary evolution of eight world-class works of art
 (Good Book Guide)

Politics, religion, war, sex and love are the inspirations behind the paintings chosen, and each takes on a new life under Schama's gaze
 (First magazine)

The author's powerful storytelling technique in this book... makes both the artist and his art spring to life
 (The Lady)

One of our best living writers on religion….prodigiously sourced, passionately written
John Cornwell (FT)

Karen Armstrong invites us on a journey through religion that helps us to rescue what remains wise from so much that to many in Britain today no longer seems true….Armstrong is one of the the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion
Alain de Botton (Observer)

Comprehensive and measured
Paul Vallely (The Independent)

This is a stunned appreciation of an ‘otherness’ beyond the reach of language, and for Armstrong, constitutes the heart of every religion
Sholto Byrnes (New Statesmen)

It isn’t an easy read – why should it be' – and at times her expertise in theology and its technical terms get in the way of layman’s understanding. But at her best, she is wonderfully clear and insightful – and not out to convert anyone
Peter Lewis (Daily Mail)

Impressive new book…great eloquence
Richard Holloway (The Scotsman)

The Case for God is a tour de force of learning. A hefty history of theology, philosophy and science, and how they converge, it knocks Dawkins and Hitchens into an intellectual cocked hat.
Chris Dolan (The Sunday Herald)

Dense and brilliant, chastening and consoling. Whether or not it sells as well as the latest Hitchens or Dawkins will be a measure of us, not the book
Christopher Hart (Sunday Times)

Forget the Man Booker long list. Susan Neiman's superb new book should be at the top of beach reads this summer. For what Neiman beautifully chronicles is how in all sorts of policy areas the left has let slip its Enlightenment bearings and is no longer able to act on moral impulses…. Now is the time to turn to Neiman and re-inject some morality into progressive politics – for the good of everyone.
Tristram Hunt (Guardian online)

A lucid new tome on why politics is a moral pursuit, and why we need a second Enlightenment. Where was the voice of academia in our political and financial crisis' This firebrand turned head of the Einstein Forum brings a refreshing conviction of the possibility of a deliberative public life.
Hugh Roberts (Guardian online)

Astonishing and essential...It is truly a guide to save us from our times, elegantly destroying the host of intellectual errors that have beset progressive as well as reactionary thought and led us to where we are
Alain de Botton A tour de force: a witty, profound, and powerful successor to her breakthrough book, Evil in Modern Thought.
Tom Gitlin With passion, wit, and high intelligence, Susan Neiman invites us to be moral grown-ups. Morally and politically compelling - and a delight to read.
Michael Walzer Susan Neiman's profound wisdom and courage give us a public conception of goodness and a reinvigorated progressive vision....She is a beacon of light and hope in our morally debased times.
Cornel West The Enlightenment project of constructing a rational morality--pronounced dead by commentators on the left and right--has found a champion determined to resurrect it for the twenty-first century.
 (Booklist)

Susan Neiman is a masterly storyteller; her new book Moral Clarity offers retellings of the Odyssey and the Book of Job that are themselves worth the price of admission. But she also has stories about the origins of her own position that place her in both larger intellectual narratives and more local political ones...Her project can be seen as a progressive alternative to (Allan Bloom's) The Closing of the American Mind.
Anthony Appiah In Moral Clarity Susan Neilman criticises the philosophical ideas that dominate contemporary culture and politics on a grand scale. She is well equipped to do this.
Onora O’Neill (FT)

Benedict Gummer’s highly impressive book charts the subsequent spread of the disease in meticulous and terrible detail
Noel Malcolm (Sunday Telegraph Seven)

Not only is Gummer’s book a treasure chest of detail...it is also full of shrewd observations. The Scourging Angel is an elegant and self-assured debut.
Dominic Sandbrook (Telegraph)

Benedict Gummer’s study…establishes the facts more thoroughly than any of his predecessors, and uses a wider range of sources than most of them…Benedict Gummer is a Parliamentary candidate for Ipswich. Some reviewers have suggested that it would be a loss to literature if he were to be elected. But I should prefer to say that it would be a gain to the House of Commons.
Jonathan Sumption (TLS)

[A] glorious picture of 14th-century England...a work of self-evident scholarship...this truly impressive work of narrative and interpretative history. In Mr Gummer’s elegant prose, with its ultra-precise vocabulary, Britain in the mid 14th century comes alive: you see it, hear it, smell it
 (Country Life)

A terrific debut, brimming with life and detail. Read it, and then check your armpits for swellings, just to be sure...
Dominic Sandbrook (Prospect)

An engaging if somewhat eccentric book… rarely fails to hold the reader’s attention
Richard Barber (Literary Review)

Douglas Rushkoff is one of the great thinkers, and writers, of our time.
Dr. Timothy Leary Douglas Rushkoff is damn smart. He understood the digital revolution faster and better than almost anyone.
Walter Isaacson The brilliant heir to Marshall McLuhan.
 (New Perspectives Quarterly)

There are few more important subjects in the West today than the corporaticization of public and personal space and few writers as well-suited to the subject as the always insightful and provocative Doug Rushkoff. A terrific contribution to an urgent debate.
Naomi Wolf This is an urgent book, essential reading about an important topic you've probably never considered before. Like all great books, it will open your eyes to a whole new way of thinking. I hope that everyone gets a chance to read it, before it's too late.
Seth Godin, author of Tribes Read this book if you want to understand how the current economic meltdown started 400 years ago, how so much of what you consider to be a natural evolution of daily life was carefully designed to profit a few, and how corporatism has so colonised every part of life that most of us don't even recognise how our lives and fortunes are channeled and manipulated by it. Rushkoff is going to be attacked as a communist, but that gets his point wrong. Look at his references - he has meticulously documented his argument. I love that Rushkoff isn't afraid to think big - very big. He took on the media more than a decade ago. Then he took on Judaism. But now he's chosen a larger target - the corporation.
Howard Rheingold author of Smart Mobs 

Magisterial
Chris Patten A clear and expert account of the rise and fall of communism
Marcus Earl (Weekend Review)

Archie Brown tells the history of these 70-odd years…with poise, a sense of balance and a judicious understanding of the differences between the varieties of communisms
Donald Sassoon (Guardian)

Archie Brown has become possibly Britain’s leading expert on communism… superb book, which in just over 700 pages gives not only the history of communism, but also the background to it and the reasons for its decline
Simon Heffer (Daily Telegraph)

The book is written for a wider audience than the official report and incorporates some more recent (and worrying) findings from climate science.
Economist (Economist)

Despite his gloomy predictions Lord Stern’s overall argument is one of optimism
Louise Gray (Telegraph)

If this year’s climate crucial climate change negotiations are successful, this book will be required reading … Lord Stern, like Al Gore, could be seen as one of the rock stars of global warming.
Fiona Harvey (Financial Times)

The planet owes Nicholas Stern a big thank you…valuable and combative stuff.
Fred Pearce (Guardian)

The Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next December will be one of the most important international gatherings since the Second World War. Nicholas Stern gives a compelling account of why the meeting matters so much to the world, and outlines a global deal that would provide the ground rules for a safer planet. His book reinforces the arguments of the original Stern Review, and provides a forceful response to its critics
Richard Lambert, head of CBI and Chancellor of Warwick University The Stern Review led the way in explaining the economic theory of climate change. His Blueprint sets out in practical terms why the world needs to act, what we need to do, and how, if we take action, we can build a new era of prosperity and growth.
Adair Turner, Chairman of the FSA and Chairman of the Climate Change Committee 

Shows how excel is the inevitably consequence of the structure of the City.
Anthony Hilton (Evening Standard)

A compelling and readable history that will enable the reader to make sense of the collapse of confidence that started in 2007 and became the Credit Crunch
N/A (www.suite101.com)

A fascinating book
Stephen Halliday (Daily Telegraph)

An eloquent, comprehensive and even-handed book
Jonathan Mirsky (Spectator)

The most complete and detailed account of the British and Zionists during the era of the mandate... All in all, a masterpiece
 (Wm Roger Louis, Editor in Chief of The Oxford History of the British Empire)

Norman Rose’s excellent new history of the Mandate of Palestine offers a detailed account of the final years of British rule... Rose’s history should be read by anyone interested in the history of Palestine
 (Times Literary Supplement)

Norman Rose's A Senseless Squalid War is the best account yet of the end of the British Mandate
Simon Sebag Montefiore (Evening Standard)

His recent Book Wars, Guns and Votes, is all the more remarkable in that it is based on impeccable scholarship and statistical analysis but remains highly readable and accessible.
Bruno Tertrais (Survival)

It is always a pleasure to discover Paul Collier’s latest thoughts…always illuminating and grounded in rigorous social science...it’s gripping stuff
Allister Heath (Literary Review)

Collier knows Africa intimately… It is hard to be unmoved by his anger about the world’s blindness to realities, and his passion to do things better
Max Hastings (Sunday Times)

Elegantly written, meticulously researched, fascinating
Ian Kershaw Lively and entertaining survey of the dictator’s reading … a wealth of fascinating detail
Rev. Richard Overy (Sunday Telegraph)

This is history at its best - the world's greatest naval disaster brought to vivid life by a rare combination of personal experience and rigorous scholarship.
John Man Terrific ... a fascinating adventure tale packed with insights into a maritime empire about which most Westerners know almost nothing.
Nathaniel Philbrick Through brilliant and painstaking research Delgado has brought Khubilai Khan's lost fleet to the surface, showing for the first time the true nature of the doomed adventure.
Stephen Turnbull One finishes the book ready to strap on mask and tanks to dive for the buried remains of the shops that still hold more Mongol secrets
rev’d Carol Gluck (TLS)

James Delgado does a splendid job as a cultural historian in showing how the legend of a brave but doomed defence, supported by the intervention of the gods, shaped national identity over seven centuries.
Adrian Brewer (Tablet)

Delgado’s knowledge of water and his archaeological passion for retrieving what history has scattered across sea beds from San Francisco to Vietnam.
Timothy Brook (Literary Review)

Wolff does one of those things that journalists can still do. He speaks truth to power.
Kim Fletcher (Prospect Magazine)

Wolff does one of those things that journalists can still do. He speaks truth to power.
Kim Fletcher (Prospect Magazine)

Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.
Edward Said Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities—and is the only writer among them still alive.
 (Guardian)

Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.
 (New York Times)

Not to have read [Chomsky] is to court genuine ignorance.
 (Nation)

A rebel without a pause.
Bono 

Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities—and is the only writer among them still alive.
 (Guardian)

Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.
 (New York Times)

Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.
Edward Said Not to have read [Chomsky] is to court genuine ignorance.
 (Nation)

A rebel without a pause.
Bono 

Filled with fascinating information and piquant details
 (Literary Review)

tautly written, gripping and suspenseful.
 (Guardian)

Stefan Aust is well placed to write the history of the most notorious of several terrorist groups
Michael Burleigh (Sunday Telegraph)

Stephen Aust’s meticulously researched chronicle of German left-wing terrorism.
Philip Oltermann (Guardian)

Meticulous history of the most famous German terrorist group.
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)

Stefan Aust is well placed to write the history of the most notorious of several terrorist groups.
Michael Burleigh (Sunday Telegraph)

Need a Christmas present for someone who likes interesting facts, with a mathematical flavour' Then this is the book.’… a pot pourri of intriguing things
 (Standpoint)

it would be hard to imagine an easier, friendlier, more entertaining introduction (to maths) than John Barrow's 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know… There are even belly laughs
 (Daily Telegraph)

Fascinating
 (Scotsman)

Schama has a masterly ability to conjure up character and vivify conflict.
Ben Rogers (Financial Times)

He remains a master storyteller, admirably and sceptically well read in current revisionist histories.
 (The Times)

Simon Schama is many things: widely ranging historian, art critic, public intellectual, television don… This ragged, brilliant, hopscotching volume of vaguely connected essays is largely about America’s myth of its own exceptionalism
 (The Guardian)

The master storyteller takes on the greatest story of our time, America … Britain’s foremost historian comes to a greater understanding of its present and future. Essential reading
Sebastian Shakespeare (Tatler)

Schama remains the subtlest of story-tellers… fans of Schama will wish the book were twice as long… What makes this book so bracing is the way Schama shows how unlike itself America has become
Tom Payne (Daily Telegraph)

A superb achievement…Schama has a gift for fluid prose that allows one to breeze through the book at a remarkable clip…engaging and informative
Civilian Reader (Civilian Reader)

Subtle and richly textured.
Peter Wilby (New Statesman)

The history book that gave me the most pleasure this year…this extraordinary essay also set the scene better than anything else published for Barack Obama’s election as president.
Christian Tyler (FT)

His tale has often be retold, but rarely as well as by Christopher Kelly here. Full of intrigue and local colour
Michael Kulikowski (London Review of Books)

Kelly’s well-told and reliable account is the best to have come along in years, showing a judicious approach to archaeological evidence that one could wish more widely imitated
London Review of Books (London Review of Books)

A cracking portrait of the “Scourge of God”
Dominic Sandbrook (Daily Telegraph)

Will still be valued in a hundred years' time...the book as a whole is an event
Peter Phillips (Spectator)

Full of extremely penetrating, well-judged observations on both man and music.
Nicholas Kenyon (The Times)

His creative engagement sympathetically draws out Handel's motivation as a composer.
Tom Sutcliffe (Guardian)

buoyant and brilliant
Bettaby Hughes (The Times)

A fascinating detailed look at how we lived during the interwar years.
The Daily Mail Christmas Books (The Daily Mail Christmas Books)

Pugh is one of the most well-respected, diligent and honest scholars working in British history today.This book deserves to be read.
Gerard DeGroot (Scotland on Sunday)

The link between a distinct wing of Conservatism and the Italian form of fascism is substantiated in this outstandingly revelatory book.
Edward Pearce (Glasgow Herald)

This book demonstrates for the first time the true spread and depth of fascist beliefs- and the extent to which they were distinctly British.
David Graham (Manchester Evening News)

Timothy Snyder is one of the most remarkable and original historians of Eastern Europe in his generation. His work commands our attention.
Timothy Garton Ash He is one of this country's most talented and innovative historians of Central and Eastern Europe... I hugely admired The Reconstruction of Nations and eagerly look forward to The Red Prince.
Niall Ferguson Timothy Snyder is not only one of the leading authorities on Central European history writing today, he is also an elegant stylist, with a talent for storytelling - a wonderful combination.
Anne Applebaum 

Chávez's rise has a made-for-Hollywood quality ... Jones provides a superb description of the economic inequities that helped create the conditions for a populist such as Chávez to come to power … Where [he] truly excels is in his observations of Venezuelan society and the outsized role oil has played in molding the national character.
 (Washington Post)

Jones's book is thoughtful, comprehensive . . . the best in the bunch.
 (Boston Globe)

Barrow highlights the power of pictures in discovering and understanding our universe… [and] true to his reputation for excellence in communicating science… this book is sure to provide enjoyable summer-time reading
Carlos Lourenço (CERN Courier)

A captivating pictorial and literary journey through the history of science… a must for every home. It is a book that will repay constant visits, and Bodley Head is to be congratulated on its lavish, robust production.
 (Sunday Times)

Fantastic brain-food.
Andrew Graham Dixon Barrow has found a vivid way to focus our attention on cutting-edge science, and there is an awful lot to learn already from this lusciously produced and captivating book.
 (The Times)

Highly informative account
Nicholas Bagnall (The Sunday Telegraph)

Fascinating and fast-moving… an extraordinary book
 (Observer)

Fascinating... No-one else could provide such an insider’s account, for he was the only one to be involved in the detail of every tortuous step.’
 (Sunday Telegraph)