Goldsworthy is an elegant writer, skilful at building atmosphere. Her fiction-within-fiction device is clever and intriguing ... the novel could hardly seem more of the moment

It often takes an emigre to describe a country most clearly, and Goldsworthy, who was born in Belgrade but has lived in London for 30 years, is proving a most accomplished poet of her adopted city ... A delight

In all three of her books, Goldsworthy has displayed a gift for creating atmosphere ... One of Goldsworthy’s strengths is the sensitivity with which she portrays the many marriages in the book ... Much of the pleasure of reading this remarkable novel comes from its passionate dedication to the power of stories.

In this subtle, intelligent novel, Albertine's narration of events in 1947, as her own story begins to carry reminders of Tolstoy's, proves poignant and effective

A beautiful haunting novel… looking at a familiar London through a frosty, snowy lens. Wonderful

A wonderful novel, entirely original, and entirely absorbing… The atmosphere she creates is exceptional

Goldsworthy enjoys playing with the classics, and she's good at it

Mournful and evocative… It makes for compelling reading.

Evocative and affecting

A story that intrigues and surprises

A thoroughly indulgent escape from those chilly winter nights, The Place We Met is guaranteed to transport you to a wonderland of hidden secrets, shocking pasts and surprising romance. I devoured this smart, enthralling story of two women whose fates are entwined in the most incredible way. Isabelle Broom is the queen of heartfelt fiction. She just gets better and better

I experienced sheer joy in reading The Place We Met . . . I was swept away in the romance, the emotions and the gorgeousness of the writing

Praise for Isabelle Broom

We loved it!

Warning: you will shed tears and end up booking a trip!

Prepare for tears and laughter

Unashamedly romantic

Brilliantly evocative

Brilliant, warm and beautifully judged - I raced through it

A lovely, absorbing novel, full of beauty and mystery

So evocative you can practically smell the paella and sangria

More than a book about sport it is a book about a young man struggling to find his groove in the rough and tumble of fairly unforgiving, male society.

In A Natural, Raisin delves into the life of a lower league English football team – a subject never covered before, as far as I know, in literary fiction. Perhaps it doesn’t sound an immediately appealing prospect. But he makes it wholly absorbing.

[A] gripping, well-written and moving story, which should interest anyone curious about enclosed worlds and hidden lives… Raisin captures both the sweat and the glory of football. He has mastered the register of manager-speak, with its urgently shouted clichés, and the earnest banter on fans’ messaging boards.

A Natural makes a conceptual leap that most old-style football fiction laboured to achieve: in the end its characters are as important as the milieu that tethers them and what emerges is an exceptionally good novel, which just happens to take place on a football pitch.

Raisin provides an authentic portrayal of life in the lower divisions both on and off the pitch. The fine details are present in the pre-match nerves in the changing rooms, the neatly laid out kit and the smell of Deep Heat, but it is the unchecked laddishness, the fake camaraderie and the close scrutiny from supporters on social media that Raisin wants us to feel… This is a rare novel about the challenge of being a gay professional footballer and hopefully it will go some way to help changing perceptions in a sport that has still got a very long way to go.

Ross Raisin’s book about a gay footballer, demands about 200 pages of patience, but you won’t regret it. In the vertiginous second half of this rich, wise study of masculinity, Raisin demonstrates with extraordinary sensitivity how difficult it can be to attain E.M. Forster’s dictum, “Only connect!”

The virtue of devastatingly simple storytelling was also felt in Ross Raisin’s A Natural…one of my favourite novels of the year, about a gay footballer hiding an affair with the groundsman at his struggling lower-league team.

A deeply moving portrait of fear and acceptance.

This seems like one of those books designed to fold straightaway into contemporary liberal conversation.

Cause for jubilation . . . This proves her to be the reigning queen of British chick lit . . . insightful, funny and poignant

Praise for Marian Keyes

Gloriously funny

Funny but poignant

A total triumph

Not only is it a great story with funny, loveable characters, it made me laugh out loud

A beautifully written modern love story from Britain's best contemporary female author

Wonderfully written and completely engrossing, with exquisitely drawn characters in a brilliantly plotted narrative. It will make you think long after you finish the final page

A tender, funny and hopeful look at love, grief and life. Bumper box of tissues required

A beautiful read

Funny, heart-warming and extremely wise

A deeply satisfying book full of big emotions

A laugh-out-loud, rollicking good read and a very touching love story

Moyes is the queen of the classy weepy

A delight

A sparkling novel of hope and sacrifice’

Magical, heart-warming and time-bending story.