Finely observed, beautifully written

[The Secrets of Life and Death] is a fine addition to the urban fantasy genre and marks Alexander as an author to watch"

Heartfelt but complicated rather than subtle, thisnovel offers plenty of suspense

This satirical romp through the gilded lives of the international super-rich is laugh-out-loud funny, with all the crackle you'd expect from the author of Crazy Rich Asians, plus a tender love story at its heart.

Sex and Vanity, another decadent romance novel by Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan ... [is] the perfect summer read.

Effervescent, grand cru escapism. All the playful Kwan hallmarks are present and correct. Sex and Vanity may poke plenty of fun at the moral iniquities of the impossibly wealthy but it's also astute on the racism that can exist within Asian families as well as without.

Delicious and delightful, I adored it.

As fizzy and refreshing as a peach Bellini.

A whip-smart homage to EM Forster's A Room With A View, but with designer outfits, lavish parties and Instagram.

With a warm love story at its heart, Sex and Vanity is also a satire on the rich and privileged that you'll devour in one gulp.

Love and gossip and glamour... oh my!

Kwan follows up his Crazy Rich Asians trilogy with an intoxicating, breezy update of E.M. Forster's A Room with a View . . . There are moments both catty and witty . . . [A] delectable comedy of manners-the literary equivalent of white truffle and caviar pizza.

True love will find a way, even among the status-obsessed and filthy rich . . . [With] irresistibly knowing humour and delightful central characters . . . This is the only way you're getting to Capri this year. Why resist?

From the writer of Crazy Rich Asians comes another bombshell book exploring the internal conflict when you pit class and love against one another.

Sex and Vanity is light-hearted, unadulterated entertainment - ideal for lifting any lingering lockdown blues.

Sex and Vanity is a deliciously decadent romp through Manhattan, the Hamptons and the Italian idyll of Capri.

If you loved Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, you are no doubt going to love this story too . . . there is love and gossip and glamour - and what more would you want, really?

Kevin Kwan's witty, frothy and entirely delectableromcom is a sharp but affectionate satire on the luxurious lives of the international smart set.

I adored this powerful, heart-breaking tale that highlights the importance of communicating, no matter how hard that might be

Beautifully written...Poignant, heart-breaking and insightful

I really loved it...It's a very moving book

A must read

It's bittersweet and beautifully written and a heartstring-tugging book about family and grief and marriage and aging. It's a book that stays with you

Frankisstein leaps from the Peterloo Massacre to contemporary bioethical speculation to nineteenth-century Bedlam to early computers, its eager, passionately clever narrator always plunging enthusiastically ahead, like the mysterious giant figure Mary Shelley glimpsed racing across that icy glacier.

An oft-moving, oft-hilarious retelling of Shelley’s much-retold classic.

Winterson teases away at…boundaries – between genders, life and death, fact and fiction, human and machine – to great, and hugely entertaining effect.

Jeanette Winterson’s latest book is a shape-shifting, time-hopping gem of a novel… Reading one of Winterson’s books is like going on a magic carpet ride through her subconscious… her stories are creative, overflowing with ideas, and shot through with her wicked sense of humour.

Rich, thoughtful, and entertaining… [a] heady combination of literary history, futurology, and romance.

An utterly brilliant book from one of the most talented writers of the moment

Frankissstein not only draws on the stories of real contemporary research around artificial intelligence and cryogenics, but also features historical figures and their compelling stories of scientific insight and discovery… I've read much of Winterson's work over the years and it seems to me she re-awakened the literary playfulness of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry with this offering.

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Gentle, moving, joyous

Full of insight and sympathy. It is also highly absorbing — partly because of Tyler’s evocative style (when Micah considers his past, he is “visited by a kind of translucent scarf of a memory floating down upon him”), but mostly because of the intimacy with which she depicts the workings of Micah’s heart and mind...a quiet revelation

In wonderful prose, Tyler drills deep into a very ordinary life, familiar struggles, and a quiet heroism

Anne Tyler's masterful new novel asks what it might take for an unhappy man to change his life... her longevity means that her work has become a record of a certain kind of America, especially of "the dailiness of women's lives", for the past half century.

A quiet and beautiful story about human relationships, written with intent observation, empathy and humour

A timely reminder of what matters: kindness and love

This gloriously warm novel felt heaven-sent when it appeared in deepest lockdown

A new book from this wonderful writer is always a joy... Tyler packs feeling and insight into every single sentence

I adored Redhead by the Side of the Road... It is so subtle, and so brilliant as are all Tyler's novels... Witty and warm, its only fault was that I wanted it to be twice as long!

Tender and beautifully paced

Compassionate and alert to the complexities in even the most ordinary lives, the book reminds us why, at 79, Tyler is held in such high regard

The qualities that have long won Tyler admiration and affection - wry humour, shrewd perception, characters who leap off the page with authenticity - are in generous supply

You can't go wrong with Anne Tyler. She makes it look easy creating characters that feel so believable, so three-dimensional

Tyler engrosses with the 'and-thenand-then' of domestic detail

I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler . . . She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that

Tyler's irresistibly readable 23rd novel follows Micah, a socially inept, OCD-ish IT man whose orderly life is turned upside down by the arrival of a son

Tyler's affectionate and quietly observant novel reveals her deep empathy for the hidden struggles of everyday lives

Another shrewd yet kindly novel about the mysterious business of family life by one of the world's great writers

A charmingly offbeat love story

The narration here is a joy: you will be leaning towards the speaker to catch every nuance of Tyler's gently comediccharacterstudy of the Baltimore bachelor and fix-it man Micah Mortimer