Required reading ... unfettered, unpretentious prose ... peppered with amusing anecdotes, a moving, humbling and rare account

Graced with characters who might easily belong in a Rudyard Kipling or George MacDonald Fraser story

A passionate tribute to the Afghan soldiers he fought alongside in Helmand ... a serious piece of work ... excellent

Beautifully written with a mix of cantonment vernacular and Oxford-educated erudition, gives important insights at a crucial time in Afghanistan's transition

His prose is lean and muscular, characterised by dry wit and acute intelligence. He also has a novelist's eye for the vivid image and the telling detail

Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in forty seconds, but Patrick Hennessey is one of the few

Hennessey is an exceptional talent

This variously tender, ironic and ferocious new voice gives us literature and not propaganda

Hennessey has a reporter's eye for detail and a soldier's nose for bullshit

It's extremely rare to have this level of analytical intelligence combined with brutal first-hand experience

[Kershaw] understands as well as any man alive the complex power structure that existed in Nazi Germany ... Gripping ... arguably the most convincing portrait of Germany's Götterdämmerung we have seen so far

Britain's most feted and prolific historian of the Third Reich

[Kershaw] is among the foremost western scholars of Nazi Germany. Although this book pursues a narrative of events between June 1944 and May 1945, its real business is to explore the psychology of the German people

An insightful study of how the Führer held his grip over the German people for so long

Comprehensive ... it generates real power

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