Consistently funny, well-informed and provocative.

Not since the heady days of Baddiel & Skinner has anyone so passionately, so adroitly, so humorously and so consistently deconstructed the joys of the game. The Ramble has long been one of those "if you know, you know" types of phenomena, but this book has all the potential to finally push these heroes beyond Di Natale cult status and up to full blown Zidanism.

The Ramble is the conversation you'd have with your friends about football. If your friends were witty, dysfunctional obsessives.

The go-to podcast for the discerning fan

Told in such a fresh way it’s a joy to read … It’s nostalgic, entertaining, informative, relevant and refreshing

The Football Ramble serves as a rough almanac of football knowledge … a zeitgeist of the sport … there’s something for every type of football fan in this one

Wonderfully authoritative vindication of what ought to be a self-evident truth: that running should be about being alive, not being a consumer.

It’s hard to imagine a more compelling or poetic running companion than Vybarr Cregan-Reid. He inspires us not just to run, but to be truly alive while we are doing it.

A brilliant, broad-ranging and beautiful book. Like a great run into a wild landscape, it opens the heart and the mind, taking you off into the unknown, delighting at every turn and returning you changed for the better.

It’s a dry comic look at devotion to sport

This is tennis’s answer to Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch… The book is particularly strong on Federer’s place in tennis history

Very enjoyable biography-cum-autobiography...this is a good book. Skidelsky has a feel for words, for the length of sentences and for tennis. The “sporty one” has finally proved himself

Thought-provoking and beautifully written, Federer and Me is a frank, funny and touching account of one fan’s life

Hooked: from opening lob to final shot

Skidelsky explores the evolution of modern tennis, the role of beauty in sport and the psychology of fandom, weaving his own past into the story

A stunning achievement

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Brilliant, bruising

This is so much more than the story of their journey – it’s a superbly written, endlessly fascinating book encompassing history, geology, landscape, family memories, wars experienced and lives well lived.

One of the most unexpected and enjoyable reads of 2016… The book fizzes erudition and is delightfully leavened by the companionship of his aged and doughty father.

A very funny book - not jovial in the post-Wodehouse Boris mode but something more taught and Caledonian... The politician in Stewart never had a chance against the writer, a reliable adversary of consensus and cant.

Beautiful, evocative, and wise.

The Marches is a transporting work from a powerful and original writer.

This beautifully written account is a moving memoir of tales from along the route but also reflections on life and relationships – father and son on this their last journey together.

Rory Stewart is one of the most talented men of our era. The Marches takes us from Rory’s constituency to his family house is an attempt to understand the bloody history of the Scottish borders… The quest is fascinating even if the answers are elusive.

As the book unfurls, the march along the marches turns into a eulogy to his father, part memoir, part biography, always a love story. It also contains one of the most unflinching, moving descriptions of death I have read.

This beautifully written book is a haunting reflection of identity and our relationships with the people and places we love.

Stewart provides much food for thought about how we value our past history