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Featuring new book reviews for Sasha Swire's Diary of an MP's Wife, Marilynne Robinson's Jack and Maeve McClenaghan's No Fixed Abode Home | Fiction | Non-Fiction | Children's | Genres | Publications | Prizes   The Week in Review 28th September 2020   Reviewers vote for Sasha Swire's memoir, dubbing it a 'glorious, compelling, jaw-dropping read'   Good morning Karen,    "Candid", "ruthless" and "compelling" are just some of the critics comments about Sasha Swire's no holds barred memoir, Diary of an MP's Wife (Little, Brown). The Guardian's Gaby Hinsliff thought Swire's look inside politics a "thrillingly indiscreet political memoir." In the Daily Telegraph, Simon Heffer praised the diaries for their honesty: "Although these diaries are highly readable and entertaining they are also profoundly depressing, for what they say, with remarkable candour, about the sort of people who now govern us." Chris Mullin found the MP's wife "candid, irreverent, occasionally outrageous and sometimes hilarious" in the Spectator, whilst Henry Mance called the title "a fun but ruthless look at life among the Cameron clique' in the Financial Times.    Critics returned to Marilynne Robinson's Gilead series this weekend with the fourth instalment, Jack (Virago Press). The Sunday Times' Claire Lowdon enjoyed the return to the "celebrated" series: "If you’re a paid-up fan you may well enjoy simply spending time with these characters again, getting answers to mysteries from the earlier books." Erica Wagner called the prose "timeless" in the Financial Times, giving the book a five star review. Finally, in the Times Literary Supplement, Dinah Birch suggested that "those who are willing to grant the imaginative patience that this novel requires, however, will find themselves rewarded."   Maeve McClenaghan's No Fixed Abode (Picador) certainly made its mark in the weekend's reviews. An Editor's Choice for The Bookseller's Caroline Sanderson, who said "McClenaghan is an award-winning journalist who deserves to win more awards for this expose." Over in the Guardian, Harry Stopes praised the author's storytelling: "McClenaghan does a good job of bringing to life the stories of the people she describes, using interviews with support workers to build rounded portraits of people in crisis." Finally, in the Irish Times, Eoin Ó Broin called the look at Britain's homeless "compelling, compassionate and hard-hitting."  By Tamsin Hackett, Books Co-ordinator, The Bookseller   Book of the Week   Diary of an MP's Wife Sasha Swire     4.20 out of 5 | 6 reviews   "a thrillingly indiscreet political memoir"   The Guardian   "This waspish insider account of the past decade in politics is also profoundly depressing – for what it says about the people who govern us"   The Daily Telegraph   "a glorious, compelling, jaw-dropping read. Just don’t mistake it for a full picture of political life"   Evening Standard   "These acerbic political diaries illuminate the snobbery at the heart of the incestuous Cameron government"   The Observer     Latest Reviews   Jack Marilynne Robinson     4.2 out of 5 5 reviews   "...Robinson’s timeless prose, her Romeo and Juliet story, have an eerily timely ring" Financial Times   Afterlives Abdulrazak Gurnah     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...Hamza and his slow deliverance from his demons ... remain in the memory" The Sunday Times   God's Shadow Alan Mikhail (Yale University)     3.2 out of 5 4 reviews   "...This fascinating history makes some grand claims for Selim the Grim" The Times   Diary of an MP's Wife Sasha Swire     4.2 out of 5 6 reviews   "...This waspish insider account of the past decade in politics is also profoundly depressing – for what it says about the people who govern us" The Daily Telegraph     Indelicacy Amina Cain     4.3 out of 5 4 reviews   "...Amina Cain’s enigmatic debut novel follows a female writer’s path from the constraints of home and marriage to creative freedom" The Observer   Mantel Pieces Hilary Mantel     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...Worth buying for the title pun alone" The Sunday Times   Fifty-Two Stories Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky     2.8 out of 5 3 reviews   "...The Russian writer’s tales of stasis, uncertainty and irresolution determined the path of 20th-century fiction" New Statesman   No Fixed Abode Maeve McClenaghan     4.3 out of 5 4 reviews   "...McClenaghan is an award-winning journalist who deserves to win more awards for this expose" The Bookseller   More Than a Woman Caitlin Moran     4.4 out of 5 5 reviews   "...Threaded through the narrative is Moran’s commonsense feminism, underpinned by the principle that if men aren’t having to put up with this crap, then neither should we" The Guardian   Agent Sonya Ben Macintyre     4.1 out of 5 4 reviews   "...When Ben Macintyre’s name is on the cover you know you are in for a thrilling ride" Evening Standard   Disloyal Michael Cohen     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...t is (ghost?) written in rollicking style and confected to give the impression Cohen is humbly repentant and ashamed" The Observer   The Bookseller's Tale Martin Latham     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...the uncensored tale of our love affair with the book" The Observer     Children's Book of the Month   Tamarind & the Star of Ishta Jasbinder Bilan   Bilan's Tamarind & the Star of Ishta follow's Tamarind, who lives in Bristol with her father, but she never met her mum, Chinty who died shortly after she was born. When her father remarries, Tamarind is sent to India to stay with the family she has never met.        Best Reviewed     Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen     4.8 out of 5 4 reviews   "...as a comic prose stylist he can give Wodehouse and Waugh a run for their money" The Sunday Times   Just Us Claudia Rankine     4.8 out of 5 4 reviews   "...tackling racism with disarming honesty" The Daily Telegraph   House of Music Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason     4.7 out of 5 3 reviews   "...A paean to camaraderie and hard graft, this thoughtful, joyous book is also a parenting manual like no other" The Observer   Daddy Emma Cline     4.3 out of 5 3 reviews   "...Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist, but it is her piercing understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories vibrate with life." The New York Times   Men Who Hate Women Laura Bates     4.3 out of 5 3 reviews   "......(a) brilliantly fierce and eye-opening book" The Guardian   English Pastoral: An Inheritance James Rebanks     4.3 out of 5 5 reviews   "...the most important book of the year...written with the raw power of a three-act Ibsen play" Evening Standard   Stephen Hawking Leonard Mlodinow     4.2 out of 5 4 reviews   "...This brief book somehow manages to be both a personal and intellectual biography of its subject – and tremendously entertaining with it" The Sunday Telegraph   Left Out Gabriel Pogrund, Patrick Maguire     4.2 out of 5 4 reviews   "...Filled with insider interviews and juicy evidence, this is an explosive account of one of the strangest periods in British political history" The Sunday Telegraph     Most Reviewed   Inside Story Martin Amis     3.1 out of 5 12 reviews   "...The novelist’s musings on his life, art and loved ones are humorous, grumpy and utterly compelling on grief" The Guardian   Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh     3.2 out of 5 10 reviews   "...“Death in Her Hands” is the work of writer who is, like Henry James or Vladimir Nabokov, touched by both genius and cruelty" The New Yorker   Mayflies Andrew O'Hagan     4.1 out of 5 9 reviews   "...one of the pleasures of O’Hagan’s writing is that he gives the gravity and the absurdity of youth equal weight" The Guardian   The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968 - 2011 William Feaver     4 out of 5 9 reviews   "...Feaver’s vastly detailed biography is the ideal companion to Freud’s work" The Guardian     Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald     4.4 out of 5 9 reviews   "...I wanted to savour it, spinning it out it across weeks, one chapter per evening, like a sort of lockdown Forty and One Nights of my very own" The Bookseller   Head Hand Heart David Goodhart     3.7 out of 5 8 reviews   "...This brilliant sequel to ‘The Road to Somewhere’ asks us to value hands and hearts, not just university degrees" The Daily Telegraph   Just Like You Nick Hornby     3.5 out of 5 7 reviews   "...t may not have fire in its belly, but it has great warmth in its heart." The Observer   Diary of an MP's Wife Sasha Swire     4.2 out of 5 6 reviews   "...This waspish insider account of the past decade in politics is also profoundly depressing – for what it says about the people who govern us" The Daily Telegraph   Online Book Events from BookGig     Claudia Winkleman – in conversation with Emma Freud   Tuesday 29th September, 2020 @ 7:30 pm   A Live Stream with Ovie Soko   Wednesday 30th September, 2020 @ 6:30 pm   The Devil and the Dark Water: Stuart Turton in conversation with Will Dean   Wednesday 30th September, 2020 @ 7:30 pm   CLC 2020: Nick Hornby in Conversation   Friday 2nd October, 2020 @ 10:00 am   © 2020 Bookseller Media Ltd.

  

Featuring new book reviews for Patrick Maguire's Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, Nick Hornby's Just Like You and Ian McGuire's The Abstainer. Home | Fiction | Non-Fiction | Children's | Genres | Publications | Prizes   The Week in Review 21st September 2020   Reviewers call Pogrund and Maguire's Left Out a 'calm and acute analysis of the Corbyn Project'   Good morning Karen,   Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire's Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn (The Bodley Head) found its way into the reviews and scored almost perfectly across the board. The Sunday Telegraph's Tom Harris found the book thrilling: "Filled with insider interviews and juicy evidence, this is an explosive account of one of the strangest periods in British political history." Jim Pickard agreed in the Financial Times, saying, " (the) deeply reported account of the Labour radical’s trials and mishaps as party leader reads like a thriller." Finally, in the Observer, John Harris called the title "a meticulous and even-handed telling of Labour’s descent from 2017 to 2019."   Reviewers certainly weren't divided over Nick Hornby's Just Like You (Viking). The Scotsman's David Robinson had high praise for the novel: "Age, race and class are all barriers to be jumped over by the lovers in Nick Hornby’s acutely observed and tender novel." Over in the Observer, Sam Leith thought that the love story was "frequently funny", and "consistently engaging". "Just Like You is readable, and shot through with Hornby’s deft comic touch" said Francesca Angelini in the Sunday Times.    Ian McGuire's The Abstainer (Scribner) wasn't sitting out of the weekend's reviews. In the New York Times, Roddy Doyle said the book is "great fun" and "It swerves from comedy to the darker stuff with ease and elegance." Over in the Sunday Times, Nick Rennison called the novel "a powerful, gripping tale", whilst in the Times, Antonia Senior called McGuire's work "masterly". Finally, Ethan Croft praised the author's handling of the period in the Literary Review: "In picking 1867 McGuire has chosen a difficult period of Irish history, but he fares well with it." By Tamsin Hackett, Books Co-ordinator, The Bookseller   Book of the Week   Left Out Gabriel Pogrund, Patrick Maguire     4.22 out of 5 | 4 reviews   "a book that is not about the quick rumbling of a political volcano but the slow rumbling of a political idiot"   The Sunday Times   "Left Out is a meticulous and even-handed telling of Labour’s descent from 2017 to 2019"   The Observer   "Filled with insider interviews and juicy evidence, this is an explosive account of one of the strangest periods in British political history"   The Sunday Telegraph   "A deeply reported account of the Labour radical’s trials and mishaps as party leader reads like a thriller"   Financial Times     Latest Reviews   Rage Bob Woodward     3.4 out of 5 4 reviews   "...The Watergate reporter offers a jaw-dropping portrait of a president he deems ‘the wrong man for the job’" The Guardian   Just Like You Nick Hornby     3.4 out of 5 5 reviews   "...t may not have fire in its belly, but it has great warmth in its heart." The Observer   Troubled Blood Robert Galbraith     4 out of 5 5 reviews   "...(a) magnificent addition to the Strike novels" The Sunday Times   The Abstainer Ian McGuire     4.2 out of 5 4 reviews   "...This is Dickens in the present tense, Dickens for the 21st century." The New York Times     V2 Robert Harris     3.8 out of 5 6 reviews   "...A young WAAF helps hunt for the Nazis’ V2 weapon in this astonishingly precise novel" The Sunday Times   The Dickens Boy Thomas Keneally     3.6 out of 5 5 reviews   "...In this absorbing novel by Thomas Keneally we follow an imagined version of his first years in the colony." The Times   Daddy Emma Cline     4.3 out of 5 3 reviews   "...Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist, but it is her piercing understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories vibrate with life." The New York Times   After the Silence Louise O'Neill     4.2 out of 5 3 reviews   "...This is a compelling read; her best yet" Prima   The New Map Daniel Yergin     3.4 out of 5 3 reviews   "...(a) capacious and well-written account" The Sunday Times   Left Out Gabriel Pogrund, Patrick Maguire     4.2 out of 5 4 reviews   "...Filled with insider interviews and juicy evidence, this is an explosive account of one of the strangest periods in British political history" The Sunday Telegraph   Just Us Claudia Rankine     4.8 out of 5 4 reviews   "...tackling racism with disarming honesty" The Daily Telegraph   Sylvia Pankhurst Rachel Holmes     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...there’s nothing linear about this wonderful book, but its direction is always clear" The Times     Paperback Book of the Month   The Testaments Margaret Atwood   Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.       Best Reviewed     Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen     4.8 out of 5 4 reviews   "...as a comic prose stylist he can give Wodehouse and Waugh a run for their money" The Sunday Times   Just Us Claudia Rankine     4.8 out of 5 4 reviews   "...tackling racism with disarming honesty" The Daily Telegraph   More Than a Woman Caitlin Moran     4.4 out of 5 4 reviews   "...Threaded through the narrative is Moran’s commonsense feminism, underpinned by the principle that if men aren’t having to put up with this crap, then neither should we" The Guardian   Daddy Emma Cline     4.3 out of 5 3 reviews   "...Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist, but it is her piercing understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories vibrate with life." The New York Times   Men Who Hate Women Laura Bates     4.3 out of 5 3 reviews   "......(a) brilliantly fierce and eye-opening book" The Guardian   Stephen Hawking Leonard Mlodinow     4.3 out of 5 3 reviews   "...This brief book somehow manages to be both a personal and intellectual biography of its subject – and tremendously entertaining with it" The Sunday Telegraph   English Pastoral: An Inheritance James Rebanks     4.3 out of 5 5 reviews   "...the most important book of the year...written with the raw power of a three-act Ibsen play" Evening Standard   Left Out Gabriel Pogrund, Patrick Maguire     4.2 out of 5 4 reviews   "...Filled with insider interviews and juicy evidence, this is an explosive account of one of the strangest periods in British political history" The Sunday Telegraph     Most Reviewed   Inside Story Martin Amis     3.1 out of 5 11 reviews   "...The novelist’s musings on his life, art and loved ones are humorous, grumpy and utterly compelling on grief" The Guardian   Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh     3.3 out of 5 9 reviews   "...“Death in Her Hands” is the work of writer who is, like Henry James or Vladimir Nabokov, touched by both genius and cruelty" The New Yorker   Mayflies Andrew O'Hagan     4.1 out of 5 9 reviews   "...one of the pleasures of O’Hagan’s writing is that he gives the gravity and the absurdity of youth equal weight" The Guardian   The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968 - 2011 William Feaver     4 out of 5 8 reviews   "...Feaver’s vastly detailed biography is the ideal companion to Freud’s work" The Guardian     Head Hand Heart David Goodhart     3.7 out of 5 8 reviews   "...This brilliant sequel to ‘The Road to Somewhere’ asks us to value hands and hearts, not just university degrees" The Daily Telegraph   Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald     4.4 out of 5 9 reviews   "...I wanted to savour it, spinning it out it across weeks, one chapter per evening, like a sort of lockdown Forty and One Nights of my very own" The Bookseller   Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart     4.3 out of 5 9 reviews   "...He’s lovely, Douglas Stuart, fierce and loving and lovely. He shows us lots of monstrous behavior, but not a single monster — only damage" The New York Times   JFK: Volume One Fredrik Logevall     4.1 out of 5 8 reviews   "... the first volume of two by Fredrik Logevall, scrutinises a quasi-mythical figure and reveals the flawed man beneath" The Sunday Telegraph   Online Book Events from BookGig     Moon Lane TV: Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre   Wednesday 23rd September, 2020 @ 6:00 pm   Jacaranda Poetry Showcase: #TwentyIn2020   Thursday 24th September, 2020 @ 7:00 pm   William Boyle and Lee Durkee in conversation with Ed Needham   Thursday 24th September, 2020 @ 8:00 pm   A Live Stream with Graham Norton   Sunday 27th September, 2020 @ 6:30 pm   © 2020 Bookseller Media Ltd.

  

Featuring new book reviews for JK Rowling's Troubled Blood, Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me and Robert Harris's V2 Home | Fiction | Non-Fiction | Children's | Genres | Publications | Prizes   The Week in Review 17th September 2020   Reviewers herald Laura Bates' Men Who Hate Women as a book to institute social change   Good morning Karen,   Laura Bates' Men Who Hate Women (Simon & Schuster) was loved by reviewers across the board. Bates' investigation into extreme misogyny "has the power to spark social change" says Lucy Knight in the Sunday Times. Over in the Evening Standard, Lucy Pavia had high praise for the exploration: "if you can stomach its darker moments the book is also compellingly argued and meticulously researched." Finally, Steven Poole had a flurry of positive things to to say in the Guardian: a "brilliantly fierce and eye-opening book," a "persuasive and alarming thesis" and a "patient, thorough approach".   Reviewers certainly weren't torn over Rose Tremain's Islands of Mercy (Chatto & Windus). The Sunday Telegraph's Francesca Carington called the novel "winningly old-fashioned" with "long sentences brim with a poised positivity". Johanna Thomas-Corr mirrored her fellow critic's praise in the Sunday Times: "so emotionally sophisticated, so deft with shade and light, more absorbing than most fiction I’ve read this year." Over in it's counterpart, the Times, Robert Douglas Fairhurst gave a rave review: "an enjoyable page-turner, but also a novel that resembles a jigsaw puzzle in the way it’s put together. The more closely you look at it, the more the joins start to show."   Blake Gopnik's Warhol (Allen Lane) popped up all over the weekend's reviews. Chosen as Guardian Book of the Day, Kathryn Hughes called the title a "mesmerising book" which "is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography." Mick Brown thought it was "a monumental portrait of the art 'souperstar'" in the Daily Telegraph, whilst the Spectator's Duncan Fallowell agreed: "Gopnik’s long biography is much needed — and it’s not long enough."  By Tamsin Hackett, Books Co-ordinator, The Bookseller   Book of the Week   Men Who Hate Women Laura Bates     4.33 out of 5 | 3 reviews   "...(a) brilliantly fierce and eye-opening book"   The Guardian   "if you can stomach its darker moments the book is also compellingly argued and meticulously researched"   Evening Standard   "A disturbing look at how online misogony is spreading into wider culture"   The Sunday Times     Latest Reviews   Troubled Blood Robert Galbraith     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...Strike and Ellacott... remain one of crime fiction’s most engaging duos. " The Guardian   Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen     5 out of 5 3 reviews   "...as a comic prose stylist he can give Wodehouse and Waugh a run for their money" The Sunday Times   Piranesi Susanna Clarke     4.1 out of 5 4 reviews   "...As a work of fiction, it’s spectacular; an irresistibly unspooling mystery set in a world of original strangeness" The Times   V2 Robert Harris     3.8 out of 5 4 reviews   "...A young WAAF helps hunt for the Nazis’ V2 weapon in this astonishingly precise novel" The Sunday Times     Stephen Hawking Leonard Mlodinow     4.3 out of 5 3 reviews   "...This brief book somehow manages to be both a personal and intellectual biography of its subject – and tremendously entertaining with it" The Sunday Telegraph   Head Hand Heart David Goodhart     3.8 out of 5 6 reviews   "...This brilliant sequel to ‘The Road to Somewhere’ asks us to value hands and hearts, not just university degrees" The Daily Telegraph   Collateral Damage Kim Darroch     3.4 out of 5 4 reviews   "...he delivers sharp insights about others; crisply critical about their decisions, while fair-minded and even kind about them as people" The Times   Inside Story Martin Amis     3 out of 5 5 reviews   "...isn’t driven or defined by style in the way Amis’s real, fictional fiction is" Literary Review   JFK: Volume One Fredrik Logevall     4.1 out of 5 8 reviews   "... the first volume of two by Fredrik Logevall, scrutinises a quasi-mythical figure and reveals the flawed man beneath" The Sunday Telegraph   Warhol: A Life as Art Blake Gopnik     3.3 out of 5 8 reviews   "...a monumental portrait of the art souperstar" The Daily Telegraph   The Doctor Who Fooled the World Brian Deer     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...It’s a remarkable story and this is a remarkable book" The Times   Wild Thing Philip Norman     2.8 out of 5 3 reviews   "...Norman has written better pop biographies than this, but Wild Thing is still an engaging memorial to a rock revolutionary" The Times     The Booker Prize Shortlist   Check out the 6 novels that made the final cut for the 2020 Booker Prize     Check out book reviews of the six novels that made the final cut in the 2020 Booker Prize - and discover the shock and surprise omission as well       Best Reviewed     Here is the Beehive Sarah Crossan     4.8 out of 5 3 reviews   "... entirely and likably original in its execution, quite unlike anything I’ve read before." The Observer   More Than a Woman Caitlin Moran     4.4 out of 5 4 reviews   "...Threaded through the narrative is Moran’s commonsense feminism, underpinned by the principle that if men aren’t having to put up with this crap, then neither should we" The Guardian   Men Who Hate Women Laura Bates     4.3 out of 5 3 reviews   "......(a) brilliantly fierce and eye-opening book" The Guardian   English Pastoral: An Inheritance James Rebanks     4.3 out of 5 5 reviews   "...the most important book of the year...written with the raw power of a three-act Ibsen play" Evening Standard   JFK: Volume One Fredrik Logevall     4.1 out of 5 8 reviews   "... the first volume of two by Fredrik Logevall, scrutinises a quasi-mythical figure and reveals the flawed man beneath" The Sunday Telegraph   Mayflies Andrew O'Hagan     4.1 out of 5 9 reviews   "...one of the pleasures of O’Hagan’s writing is that he gives the gravity and the absurdity of youth equal weight" The Guardian   The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman     4 out of 5 3 reviews   "...so fun and charming" Prima   Russian Roulette Richard Greene     4 out of 5 5 reviews   "...Greene emerges from these pages in three dimensions, as a uniquely fascinating man" The Sunday Telegraph     Most Reviewed   Summer Ali Smith     4.3 out of 5 13 reviews   "...wise, funny, unsentimental and exhilarating" Financial Times   Mayflies Andrew O'Hagan     4.1 out of 5 9 reviews   "...one of the pleasures of O’Hagan’s writing is that he gives the gravity and the absurdity of youth equal weight" The Guardian   Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh     3.3 out of 5 9 reviews   "...“Death in Her Hands” is the work of writer who is, like Henry James or Vladimir Nabokov, touched by both genius and cruelty" The New Yorker   Too Much and Never Enough Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.     3.6 out of 5 8 reviews   "...a ghastly tale laden with profound dynastic anguish: something like Succession crossed with Bleak House" The Sunday Times     Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart     4.3 out of 5 9 reviews   "...He’s lovely, Douglas Stuart, fierce and loving and lovely. He shows us lots of monstrous behavior, but not a single monster — only damage" The New York Times   JFK: Volume One Fredrik Logevall     4.1 out of 5 8 reviews   "... the first volume of two by Fredrik Logevall, scrutinises a quasi-mythical figure and reveals the flawed man beneath" The Sunday Telegraph   Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald     4.4 out of 5 9 reviews   "...I wanted to savour it, spinning it out it across weeks, one chapter per evening, like a sort of lockdown Forty and One Nights of my very own" The Bookseller   Summerwater Sarah Moss     4.2 out of 5 9 reviews   "......by the time I reached the end of the novel I could hardly breathe. So, so good." The Bookseller   Online Book Events from BookGig     A Live Stream with Monty Don   Thursday 17th September, 2020 @ 6:30 pm   Jo Nesbo in Conversation   Thursday 17th September, 2020 @ 7:00 pm   Gill Paul in conversation with Dinah Jefferies, Tracy Rees and Hazel Gaynor   Thursday 17th September, 2020 @ 6:00 pm   Wizards and Dragons: Lindsey Russell interviews Cressida Cowell   Saturday 19th September, 2020 @ 10:00 am   © 2020 Bookseller Media Ltd.

  

Featuring new book reviews for Laura Bates' Men Who Hate Women, Rose Tremain's Islands of Mercy and Blake Gopnik's Warhol Home | Fiction | Non-Fiction | Children's | Genres | Publications | Prizes   The Week in Review 14th September 2020   Reviewers herald Laura Bates' Men Who Hate Women as a book to institute social change   Good morning Karen,   Laura Bates' Men Who Hate Women (Simon & Schuster) was loved by reviewers across the board. Bates' investigation into extreme misogyny "has the power to spark social change" says Lucy Knight in the Sunday Times. Over in the Evening Standard, Lucy Pavia had high praise for the exploration: "if you can stomach its darker moments the book is also compellingly argued and meticulously researched." Finally, Steven Poole had a flurry of positive things to to say in the Guardian: a "brilliantly fierce and eye-opening book," a "persuasive and alarming thesis" and a "patient, thorough approach".   Reviewers certainly weren't torn over Rose Tremain's Islands of Mercy (Chatto & Windus). The Sunday Telegraph's Francesca Carington called the novel "winningly old-fashioned" with "long sentences brim with a poised positivity". Johanna Thomas-Corr mirrored her fellow critic's praise in the Sunday Times: "so emotionally sophisticated, so deft with shade and light, more absorbing than most fiction I’ve read this year." Over in it's counterpart, the Times, Robert Douglas Fairhurst gave a rave review: "an enjoyable page-turner, but also a novel that resembles a jigsaw puzzle in the way it’s put together. The more closely you look at it, the more the joins start to show."   Blake Gopnik's Warhol (Allen Lane) popped up all over the weekend's reviews. Chosen as Guardian Book of the Day, Kathryn Hughes called the title a "mesmerising book" which "is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography." Mick Brown thought it was "a monumental portrait of the art 'souperstar'" in the Daily Telegraph, whilst the Spectator's Duncan Fallowell agreed: "Gopnik’s long biography is much needed — and it’s not long enough."  By Tamsin Hackett, Books Co-ordinator, The Bookseller   Book of the Week   Men Who Hate Women Laura Bates     4.33 out of 5 | 3 reviews   "...(a) brilliantly fierce and eye-opening book"   The Guardian   "if you can stomach its darker moments the book is also compellingly argued and meticulously researched"   Evening Standard   "A disturbing look at how online misogony is spreading into wider culture"   The Sunday Times     Latest Reviews   Collateral Damage Kim Darroch     3.4 out of 5 4 reviews   "...a sharply written book, full of dry and wry observations of a lifelong public servant who, having spent his career shunning the spotlight, suddenly finds himself at the heart of a media firestorm" The Observer   Head Hand Heart David Goodhart     3.8 out of 5 6 reviews   "...This brilliant sequel to ‘The Road to Somewhere’ asks us to value hands and hearts, not just university degrees" The Daily Telegraph   Stephen Hawking Leonard Mlodinow     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...This brief book somehow manages to be both a personal and intellectual biography of its subject – and tremendously entertaining with it" The Sunday Telegraph   Inside Story Martin Amis     3 out of 5 5 reviews   "...The well-loved author’s autobiographical novel is annoying, repetitive but full of verbal talent" The Sunday Times     JFK: Volume One Fredrik Logevall     4.1 out of 5 8 reviews   "... the first volume of two by Fredrik Logevall, scrutinises a quasi-mythical figure and reveals the flawed man beneath" The Sunday Telegraph   Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald     4.4 out of 5 9 reviews   "...Macdonald’s writing teems with other voices and perspectives, with her own challenges to herself" The New York Times   The Doctor Who Fooled the World Brian Deer     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...It’s a remarkable story and this is a remarkable book" The Times   Wild Thing Philip Norman     2.8 out of 5 3 reviews   "...Norman has written better pop biographies than this, but Wild Thing is still an engaging memorial to a rock revolutionary" The Times   V2 Robert Harris     TBC out of 5 2 reviews   "...A young WAAF helps hunt for the Nazis’ V2 weapon in this astonishingly precise novel" The Sunday Times   Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart     4.3 out of 5 9 reviews   "...a transcendent portrait of alcoholism, poverty and desperate filial love in 1980s Glasgow" The Daily Telegraph   Piranesi Susanna Clarke     3.8 out of 5 3 reviews   "...As a work of fiction, it’s spectacular; an irresistibly unspooling mystery set in a world of original strangeness" The Times   Inventory Darran Anderson     3.7 out of 5 4 reviews   "...It is reminiscent of a long-exposure photograph, tracking the effects of time scored through life, and place, and landscape, and the human heart" Irish Times     Children's Book of the Month   Tamarind & the Star of Ishta Jasbinder Bilan   Tamarind lives in Bristol with her father, but she never met her mum, Chinty, who died shortly after she was born. When her father remarries, Tamarind is sent to India to stay with the family she has never met, in their atmospheric ancestral home high in the Himalaya mountains. Her arrival in India brings culture shock, secrets and unanswered questions: what is the tension between her father and the family, and why will no one talk about her mother?        Best Reviewed     Here is the Beehive Sarah Crossan     4.8 out of 5 3 reviews   "...Raw, emotional and wistful" Woman & Home   More Than a Woman Caitlin Moran     4.4 out of 5 4 reviews   "...Moran proves herself, once more, a sage guide in the joys, as well as the difficult bits, of being a woman – of being a partner, mother, friend and feminist." 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Trump, Ph.D.     3.6 out of 5 8 reviews   "...The president’s niece rakes over abuse, greed and neglect in a bid to explain his psyche" Financial Times     Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart     4.3 out of 5 9 reviews   "...a transcendent portrait of alcoholism, poverty and desperate filial love in 1980s Glasgow" The Daily Telegraph   JFK: Volume One Fredrik Logevall     4.1 out of 5 8 reviews   "... the first volume of two by Fredrik Logevall, scrutinises a quasi-mythical figure and reveals the flawed man beneath" The Sunday Telegraph   Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald     4.4 out of 5 9 reviews   "...Macdonald’s writing teems with other voices and perspectives, with her own challenges to herself" The New York Times   Summerwater Sarah Moss     4.2 out of 5 9 reviews   "...Moss’s ability to conjure up the fleeting and sometimes agonised tenderness of family life is unmatched" The Guardian   Online Book Events from BookGig     Robert Harris In Conversation with Jon Snow   Wednesday 16th September, 2020 @ 7:30 pm   woman&home Book Club presents: In conversation with Joanne Harris   Wednesday 16th September, 2020 @ 7:30 pm   A Live Stream with Monty Don   Thursday 17th September, 2020 @ 6:30 pm   Wizards and Dragons: Lindsey Russell interviews Cressida Cowell   Saturday 19th September, 2020 @ 10:00 am   © 2020 Bookseller Media Ltd.