This admirable biography...thoughtful, well-written, judicious account of a brilliantly clever man.

A great many anecdotes enliven Adrian Fort's welcome biography of the scentist who, in two wars, strove to unite science and the conduct of war.

This thoughtful, amused and well-researched biography

This wholly admirable...scholarly book which provides fascinating, if sometimes disconcerting, glimpses of the world of science and government in the 1930's and 1940's

[Burke] is one of the most respected and experienced foreign correspondents in the business ... A major authority on the politics and organisation of Islamic extremism and ... a talented writer with the rare gift of joining effortless prose to challenging scholarship ... [The 9/11 Wars] is a magnificent achievement

A reader wanting a more dispassionate survey of how 9/11, and the response to it, may have shaped parts of the world will do no better than invest in [this] brilliant book

This remarkably balanced, well-sourced and very well-written book ... will be turned to in the future ... [Burke] has demonstrated impressive expertise as a historian who has had the advantage of having been present on many of the battlefields he describes

[A] lucid, sane account ... taut, careful reporting ... Remarkable

Making sense of the aftermath of 9/11 ... is a monumental task - but Burke is up to the job. The 9/11 Wars is insightful, thorough, and at times fascinating

Potent ... journalism of a high order. Like all good reporters, Burke is something of a scholar, drawing meticulously on interview notes years old, and on extensive background reading. He excels, too, in describing the experiences of ordinary Muslims; such insights make this book essential for understanding the past decade

Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.

Powerful, sparse prose

Compelling...brief but intense...Morrison writes with her usual lyricism

It is beautifully, sparely written, as with all Morrison's work, and lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned

Spare and visual…a writer of consummate.

Pulsing with imaginative energy, it displays Morrison’s veteran ability to combine physical and social immediacy with psychological and emotional subtlety. A fine addition to Morrison’s expansive chronicling of black American history, Home is a compact triumph.

A highly fractured tale intended to resemble the crumbling nature of Money’s existence post war. Nothing is over-laboured. Each word resounds with sultry, heat-oppressive Georgia.

Morrison's writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page

Home is a powerful reminder of the impact the past plays on the present

Morrison can say more in one word than most novelists manage in an entire book. Superb

Bursting with poetic language and horrific events this is a penetrating insight to the African-American experience

It is a powerful set-up, building suspense and a mounting sense of anxiety

Toni Morrison’s mesmerising prose manages to be both elegiac and visceral at the same time