[A] story of restrained emotions played out in a period setting among picturesque locations . . . Faulks gives every sign of being a real novelist, who thinks and feels through the written word

An excellent story-teller, intense and skilful in planning and bringing off his effects

Fans of Sally Rooney will adore this excellent novel, which has garnered rave reviews

The Trio is like the love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited. A sublime and elegiac meditation on love, intimacy, freedom and jealousy, it elegantly explores the gulf between our interior lives and the personas we perform - and between ourselves and other people. Hedman's writing (and Josefsson's stunning translation) is staggeringly beautiful. Vivid, effortless, and perceptive to a molecular degree

Delicate and beguiling... The Trio spans from Berlin to London to Paris as the [characters] continually renegotiate who they each are to each other, questions of ownership and privilege floating in the background of summers which feel both fleeting and endless

An international success before even being published, The Trio is a novel that stands well above the hype... Elegiac, bittersweet, [with] the golden shimmer of nostalgia, it is a story about big emotions

Mature and confident, delicate and eloquent, a study in intimacy . . . Timeless and universal

Full of verve, nostalgia, longing and the claustrophobic euphoria of being in the world with the people you love, this gorgeous novel whisks you along with it; you have no choice but to gratefully follow

Vigorous and vivid, wistful and engaging. Johanna Hedman should definitely expect to win prizes

An acute, eloquent and bittersweet debut... There may be an August Prize nomination!

An unusual debut, confident and intriguing, [by] a mature and gifted writer. The implicit nostalgia works its magic [in this] story of the time when life first gains colour and shape

The ending leaves a stinging sensation [asking] questions of what really becomes important in hindsight, what we remember and how we remember it, and, not least why we become who we are as a consequence of our choices

Stylishly and elegantly composed

How on earth is it possible that Johanna Hedman is a debutant? It feels as if I've seen the future of Swedish writing

An absolutely fantastic debut novel

An utterly absorbing multi-generational tale - the beautiful relatable writing we've come to expect from Elizabeth Noble, with a touch of summer magic...I adored it

A moving and warm-hearted novel about love in all its forms...Nobody weaves a complex web of stories with quite the same skill as Elizabeth Noble

Irresistible comfort read

Honest and beautifully written

Noble is the mistress of the tearjerking message of love

A moving and warm-hearted story of friendship and love . . . Elizabeth Noble writes wonderfully real and relatable characters and then puts their lives under the microscope, weaving their stories with tenderness and humanity

Other People's Husbands is a compelling, honest and uplifting tale which will have you hooked from first page to last

An artful game of distortion... Clever handling

A curious piece of autobiographical fiction

A wisecracking thriller hightailing between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in... This is ultimately a book about writing, wordplay and knowingness

No contemporary novelist is more enthralled by what goes on inside the human skull than Ian McEwan... Sweet Tooth, which juxtaposes contrasting casts of mind, reminds you that, as well as intelligence, the intelligence service fascinates McEwan... Always excellent at conjuring up places and periods on the cusp of dramatic change... McEwan atmospherically resurrects the strife-ridden Britain of 1972 -73... Similarities and contrasts between the mentality and mind games of the secret service and those of the creative writer are increasingly brought to the fore. Doubling back and forth across genre boundaries, Sweet Tooth takes risks: narrative loiterings and twists whose purpose isn’t at first apparent, a payoff that is long delayed. But – ideally read more than once – this acute, witty novel is a winningly cunning addition to McEwan’s fictional surveys of intelligence

Must read... Intrigue, love and mutual betrayal by a master of the art

The great thing about McEwan is that, despite his success, he continues to work hard, producing ever more accessible and entertaining stories

Carefully researched

McEwan, as always, presents an engaging narrator... The plot is fantastic... McEwan plays with the readers expectations, and surpasses them all with a fabulous ending that makes me itch to re-read this superb novel all over again. Sweet Tooth marks another triumph for a brilliant British author

A pleasing, tricksy beast with a subsumed sense of metatextuality likely to be pleasing to his fans

Adroitly done...highly diverting

A triumphant shedding of genre limitations

This most cunning of authors entertains and manipulates his readers. Sweet Tooth is a masterclass in the art of fiction

Ian McEwan is getting better and better… Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell

McEwan’ssmoothly contrived thriller hightails between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in

An expertly crafted thriller written with a bucketload of suspense and wit

As richly textured as anything Ian McEwan has written

Brilliantly cunning… It’s a story of love, betrayal and duplicity, with the most startling deception reserved for the final pages

Playful, clever, knowing and full of stories

Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell

Beyond virtuoso twists and turns, McEwan lays out the foreign landscape of 40 years ago – from smoky pubs to fuming punditry – with wry, affectionate panache

Tricksy, but satisfying

The sense of narrative purpose exerts its pull from the first