Joanna Trollope crossed with Tom Sharpe

Here, hard science and dreamy Romanticism exist in both tension and harmony… Frankissstein abounds with invention… this is a work of both pleasure and profundity, robustly and skilfully structured, and suffused with all Winterson’s usual preoccupations – gender, language, sexuality, the limits of individual liberty and the life of ideas.

A modern take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it’s a fascinating and engrossing look at AI, science, gender fluidity and, ultimately, what it really means to be human.

Yes, the book we have all been waiting for. Yes, everything Winterson has always done so well. Yes, above and beyond anything that is yet to be written.

Astonishing. Bold. Teeming with wit and intellectual prowess. Winterson is a literary giant. She remains one of my favourite writers.

Winterson has had a surge of inventiveness… Frankissstein gamely links arms with the zeitgeist. {it} is a book that seeks to shift our perspective on humanity and the purpose of being human in the most darkly entertaining way… gloriously well observed .. I found myself vibrating with laughter.

Winterson reboots Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the 21st Century, launching us into a hold-on-to-your hat modern-day horror story about very modern-day neuroses and issues.

Intelligent and inventive… Frankisstein is very funny. There has always been a fine line between horror and high camp, and this is a boundary that Winterson gleefully exploits.

Refreshingly, Jeanette Winterson’s Frankisstein… is a wildly inventive reimagining of one of science fiction’s most beloved stories… lyrical, gloriously raunchy, pulpy and absurd.

A clever comic romp that teases at the nature — and future — of life, death and what it is to be human, without ever being ponderous… [Frankissstein is] first-rate.

Winterson writes in many forms then, but always with complete verve and disarming self-confidence… readers are in deft hands with Winterson. It helps that it’s a lighter read than you might expect: the schlocky history of Frankenstein and its many film spin-offs have given her permission to have some fun. And the sex robot business is truly hilarious.

Funny and philosophical… This is a love story about life itself from a gifted writer.

A surprisingly funny novel… [and] characters…[are] well-rounded, with unexpected layers.

Highly satisfying.

Winterson’s witty and imaginatively plotted novel is a dizzying tour of future possibilities… Timely and thought-provoking, Frankisstein raises questions about the role of out bodies, the future of relationships, and, ultimately what it means to be human.

Shot through with references from Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare and TS Eliot, Winterson’s latest offering has a flavour of classical legend. She makes the world afresh, whole emphasising the human need for super-human figure and god-like intelligence is eternal.

An essential read for now.

Winterson always pushes boundaries with her writing and this novel is no different.

Winterson’s bold novel asks old questions about the body’s possibilities in a provocative new way.

Playfully allusive and relentlessly readable, it’s a book so wild and fizzing with ideas you feel it might actually pop.

Playful and inventive… There is a merged ocean of thought with [Frankisstein]; ideas slip between characters and time frames. Frankisstein reincarnates as it evolves, each part deepening the part before it.

A weird and engaging and extremely funny take on Shelley’s classic… The book seeks to shift our perspective on humanity, I think, and the purpose of being… Technology today is allowing us to shape our notions of sex and gender; tomorrow, it will shape our end.

I'm awestruck, as always, by Jeanette Winterson…. Frankissstein…is a dazzlingly bonkers reworking of Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein, featuring artificial intelligence, sex robots and sci-fi experiments.

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.

Beautiful, life-affirming stories that whisk you away and make you fall in love

Tender. A beautiful festive tale of a girl in search of a family for Christmas

A sweeping historical novel that opens in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire… The Parisian calls to mind a 19th-century novel.

Complex, subtle and challenging… [The Parisian is] excelling––with a powerful ending that is moving in the way it knits together the themes of self-betrayal and social and political treachery.

Reconciling oneself with the pain and pleasure of the ties that bind one to certain people and places is something that lies at the heart of Hammad’s novel… the world Hammad paints is a rich one.

Hammad… convincingly weaves the conversations and arguments around the Palestinian table, inviting the reader to join the friends and family who are full of complexity and humanity, and refuse to be defined by the tragedy that is befalling them… To read The Parisian is to gradually get to know a friend, like drinking tea with a favourite uncle and hearing about family stories, gossip and politics.

Escapism in the form of adventure and sisterhood. This is a novel with real depth and feeling and touches on worker's rights, racism, environmentalism and education

This tribute to female friendship and the joy of books is a compelling read

A captivating tale of love, friendship and self-actualisation

Escapism in the form of adventure and sisterhood. A novel with real depth and feeling. Empowering

An exploration of people's cruelty and also their kindness

The author of Me Before You pulls off a cracker with this stirring, exciting adventure story inspired by true events, in depression-era Kentucky, women find freedom and friendship by joining a brigade of horseback librarians

Jojo Moyes is back with another page turner. Inspired by a remarkable true story, The Giver of Stars features five incredible women who will prove to be every bit as beloved as Lou Clark, the unforgettable heroine of Me Before You

Joyous. Pucky female characters and wonderful writing. This is her best

About five extraordinary women in 1920s Kentucky, who worked on horseback as travelling librarians

An enthralling read based on a true story

One to get lost in. Escape with this book and follow the story of five women who are embarking on a powerful journey - and refuse to obey any man's commands!

A brand-new page-turner . . . based on a true story and tracks five feisty women living in America during the Great Depression

Jojo Moyes is back with this tale based on the real-life horseback librarians of Kentucky

Took me to the mountains of depression-era Kentucky where brave women librarians risked all to deliver books on horseback

Celebrates the world of books . . . A fictional yarn about a quintet of extraordinary intrepid women from disparate backgrounds

From the very first page, I was drawn into the world and the characters that Jojo Moyes has so carefully created

A fabulous adventure story

Praise for Jojo Moyes

Moyes somehow manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love

Raw, funny, real and sad, this is storytelling at its best

Immensely readable and enjoyable

This truly beautiful story made us laugh, smile and sob like a baby - you simply have to read it

Wonderfully written and completely engrossing, with exquisitely drawn characters in a brilliantly plotted narrative

A heart-stopping read. Destined to be the novel that friends press upon each other

Britain's best contemporary female author

The storytelling treads the delicate balance between heartbreak and hope perfectly

A triumph

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

Joyful, with a pitch-perfect ending

Julia Whelan is perfect as Alice Wright

Concentrates on sisterhood and friendship

A sweeping story of female friendship with a dash of romance, set in 1930s Kentucky

Her writing is beautiful and whimsical with unique storylines

This most recent book of Jojo's is her best . . . I loved this adventure story for girls for its plucky female characters and wonderful writing