A fascinating story and well worth the read

Riveting ... A fiercely urgent reminder to the world - and the Government - that peace must never be sacrificed for politics

I was enthralled and absorbed by this memoir ... Riveting

Artful, entertaining and often enlightening - one of the few memoirs by a senior Irish office-holder that's actually worth reading

What an incredible life lived by an outstanding role model. I ate this book up

A meticulously researched and recorded history of the past half-century in Ireland and the story of a life passionately committed to working for peace

Full of conviction and isn't afraid of plain speaking ... Priests, popes, paramilitaries and Ian Paisley are all held to account

[A] chatty, provocative and embraceable biography

Excellent

Compelling ... Displays many of the qualities that made her such a popular president

A warm and witty insight into an extraordinary woman

An immensely readable effort from that rarest of figures - a politician you actually like and admire

A truly inspirational new biography of George V

A superb book; arguably it is the best biography of George V... immensely readable, wonderfully researched

Ridley is good on the telling detail . . . lively and unstuffy

[George V] is candid, well written, based on wide research and full of piquant detail, some of it new

This deeply researched biography casts new light upon the misunderstood monarch and his Queen, Mary of Teck. Illuminating, intensely readable

Sparkling

Riveting... Ridley brings new insight to George's personal life... Well-researched and entertaining, this book offers a vluable reassessment of a king who shaped modern Britain

[A] graceful, funny book... Ridley offers fine-grained and astute sketches of members of the king's entourage as they came and went

Outstanding . . . richly entertaining

Empireland argues passionately that our identity has been shaped for the worse by empire, and that we must do more to debunk national myths

In the wake of personal epiphany we glimpse with Sanghera pathways of transformative potential ... a simple but profound response - this searching introspection and a quest for new horizons, combined with a readiness to sit with the contradictions of it all

My book of the year so far. A really thoughtful, deeply researched and elegantly written look at the legacy of empire

Very well written ... decent, balanced and wise. His decency and talent remind us of how much we owe to all those immigrants from our empire who came to make their lives here

Blending rigorous research with passages that make you bark with laughter, this is an effortlessly smart study of feminism’s power to make society better for everyone.

Helen Lewis has produced a real gem in Difficult Women... With wit and understanding...it is effective and often very moving.

A collection of fascinating, well-researched and vividly told biographies of women who made tangible contributions to the lives we live now… Lewis’ book is challenging, punchily written and refreshing in equal measure, and a joy to read.

A lesson modern progressives would be remiss to ignore.

Any one of these women could fill a book on her own, but Lewis deftly threads their lives together into an irresistibly rumbustious account of this movement; sometimes affecting, sometimes very funny (the footnotes are a sass-filled joy) and sometimes shocking.

[Difficult Women] is meticulously researched and intelligently argued whilst also being extremely readable. Unusually for a non-fiction book, it is a page-turner. Lewis' style is playful and engaging, and after each chapter you find yourself turning the page asking eagerly "but what happened next?”… Interspersed with personal anecdotes and often funny footnote asides, she deals with the serious alongside the light-hearted in a way which demonstrates her talent as a writer, researcher and journalist

This history of feminism eschews feelgood, empowering clichés and goes in search of the 'difficult women' who shaped the fight for gender equality.

Engaging and witty, this history of feminist fights will keep you gripped to the last page.

This often hilariously funny book taught me about the women who fought for my freedoms. Unlike in so many accounts, these women are not canonised but written as they are, imperfect.

Helen Lewis is one of the very few journalists whose every word I will read.