Franklin is one of the very best creators of medieval whodunits writing today

Few historical novelists make their oddly clad characters, from monarchs to wattle-and-daubers, seem so much like real people

I'd like to crown Ariana Franklin Queen of the Historical Mystery!

An excellent medieval mystery, full of colour and tension

Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A +

It is an occasion worth celebrating when a sparkling novel, a work of wit, irony and feeling is brought back into print after an absence of many years. So uncork the champagne for I Capture the Castle

This rite of passage story about a precocious teenager and her eccentric family is romantic, off-beat and totally magical

Influential and much loved novel

Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect

It's as fresh as if it were written this morning and as classic as Jane Austen. I'm very happy to have met it

A good story, flourishing characters, and the most persuasive narrative voice

A classic tale of the triumph of youthful naivety over middle-aged cynicism

Classic coming of age novel

An astonishing graphic novel/memoir whose precise drawings capture Bechdel's life-long hunt for transcendence through physical exertion.

The biggest event of the year was the return of Alison Bechdel... Bechdel's previous books have made her one of the superstars of graphic fiction, and this funny, perceptive and merciless account shows that...her talent remains undimmed.

The Secret to Superhuman Strength... demands to be reread immediately... and does the reader far more good than a Peloton class and a cup of turmeric tea.

A joyful book, a feast of colour, wit and ideas about living in ever-changing times

The brilliant cartoonist traces her own history of (sometimes obsessive) exercise in this stunning graphic memoir.