Fascinating ... O’Mara argues [walking] is intimately connected to our bodies, our brains, and ultimately how we exist as a species

In Praise of Walking is both informative and persuasive enough to rouse the most ardent couch potato – perhaps saving humanity before our lifestyle consumes our brains completely

Convincing and compelling ... In Praise of Walking is peppered with insights about everything from 19th-century poets and flâneurs to modern-day experiments with subjects playing video games in fMRI scanners

Walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier ... [O'Mara] knows this not only through personal experience, but from cold, hard data

Full of insights… an accessible and thought-provoking discussion of walking as a key to human success

A book that will leave you itching to go out for a good old-fashioned stroll

A fascinating new book that examines the multitudinous benefits of this form of locomotion

Like a poem to walking… [and] the science that might help convince planners to prioritise walking as a means of getting around

Forget apples. A walk a day really will keep the doctor away

[In Praise of Walking] it provides an antidote to the many miseries that can accumulate because of our modern, sedentary lifestyle

Whether you’re an avid hiker or simply like to get out and do the school run on foot, this book will make you appreciate the physical, mental and societal benefits of getting outdoors on two feet.

An informative yet witty book on the importance of walking for our health and wellbeing, and for societies in general

Compelling… A new angle on our favourite pastime

A fascinating read… This informative book…will rouse you from the sofa and make you want to get moving

Beautiful ... A gentle but deeply affecting read, and the perfect reminder of how sadness and hope can sometimes live side by side

Sure and subtle, MacMahon holds the reader in her spell. She is a born storyteller

Kathleen MacMahon has written an absorbing, grave, and emotionally resonant study of a marriage, of a life, of masculinity and of grief. A marvellous achievement

Kathleen MacMahon sensitively explores the complexities of the human heart and reveals how even in the depths of grief, unexpected light can emerge from the darkness

Full of humour and brims with the warmth of family, friendship and the possibility of second chances

An elegantly written and moving account of one man coming to terms with the sudden death of his wife

Excellent (and darkly funny) ... A sensitive, nuanced, and ultimately hopeful exploration of grief

Touching and enthralling

Stunning

A tender portrait of a marriage and how we are formed by our closest relationships

Heart-wrenching ... Almost a parable, it's a cautionary tale for those failing to appreciate just how short life can be

It's rare to read an account of a happy normal marriage and she does it brilliantly

Kathleen MacMahon writes with a confidence and ease and with an unerring sense of timing

Nothing But Blue Sky is quiet and thoughtful and very moving - Claire Fuller

Addresses what motherhood really feels like... She writes about raising five children with honesty and poignancy, revealing universal truths along the way.

Stroud's warm and honest memoir is the take on parenting we all need. An unflinching look at how to hold on to your own personality when motherhood threatens to submerge it.

Stroud’s clear-eyed look at how wildness and domesticity have entwined in her life is both heartening and inspiring.

Clover Stroud writes with such startling vivacity and honesty about motherhood, this book has its own heartbeat. It crackles with life - its messiness, darkness, and joy. I loved it.

Her descriptions leap off the page... It's the honesty that makes this book so compelling.

Clover Stroud managed to write down all of the mania in one place, making me shed a tear and honk with laughter…she writes so eloquently about all we lose as well as gain through our children.

'Clover Stroud is a wonderful writer of the most colourful prose

My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud is a robust, raw and rare celebration of motherhood that had me laughing out loud one moment and crying the next.

A captivating guide to the joys and terrors of motherhood.

An electrically candid memoir...raw, elemental and beautiful.