Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters

This magnificent, elegant work is pure tour de force... one of the best things I've read in a long, long time

[An] exquisite and warm novel ... Among Norway's contemporary writers, Ullmann might be the finest sentence by sentence

Unquiet is a wonderfully absorbing and moving family story told with a directness, naturalness, and grace that can only result from Linn Ullmann's close attention to the eloquent details of day-to-day life, her honest embrace of herself and the people close to her, and a keen sensitivity to language and the high demands of good writing

I've long admired Linn Ullmann's fiction, and Unquiet is her masterpiece. Based on her upbringing as the child of two great artists, it is the portrait of complex loves; of a youth divided and inspired by diametrically opposed creative influences; and of the ravages of age. Calm yet fierce, exquisitely rendered, this novel imprints itself indelibly?as if you, too, had been there

Ullmann navigates the dangerous and fissile territory... with great power. I am in awe

Effortlessly lucid, full of grace and restraint

A powerful and unsettling hybrid of memoir, fiction and meditation ... The work of a lifetime

Mel Brooks has made three of the best comedies ever made. Read all about it

Studded with snickering asides and rapid-fire jokes, Brooks's account of making it in show biz is just as sidesplitting as his movies.

The King of Comedy

Convivial and chirpily amusing...Wisecracking Mel's journey from tragedy to comedy.

Riotous

A jaunty romp across Brooks's career

Brooks writes evocatively and with huge affection about his show business breakthrough as a writer

Such an enjoyable read

The silver-haired overlord of daytime TV . . . Schofe's candour is admirable

In this soul-bearing autobiography, Phillip looks back on his broadcasting career . . . A frank and highly readable life story

O'Connor brings everything to this memoir

Incendiary

Astonishingly good, wise and hilarious

Candid, open-hearted . . . a lot of self-deprecation, a lot of laughs, and a measure of honesty that would put most of us to shame

Genuinely incredible . . . [Rememberings is] suffused with humour and forgiveness

There's nothing conventional about Sinéad O'Connor and there's little conventional about her memoir either. . . She writes with searing honesty and plenty of wit

Her complicated life makes for riveting reading. From ripping up photographs of the Pope on prime time US television and her mental health struggles to a rollercoaster spiritual quest, she has never been afraid to be fearless

A deliciously decadent tale of sex, tragedy, celebrity, surfboards and tanned skin in 1980s Malibu.

I absolutely loved her book.... It's an absolute blast to read

JACKIE COLLINS, BUT BETTER Sacrilege to say "better", I know, but there we are. Set in the 1980s, Taylor Jenkins Reid's Malibu Rising is wonderfully written, intensely evocative and concerns the model/ surfer children of a rock star. Tons of glamour, tons of sharply observed insights about sibling relationships, plus a massive party. Beach read par excellence. See also her brilliant Daisy Jones & the Six, which is heaven (more rock stars).

When we picked up Malibu Rising, the new novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, we could barely put it down

You'll never want this book to end, it will suck you in and spit you out!