An extraordinary début

A minor masterpiece

Boyne should be congratulated for his spirited take on an old theme

Boyne is a skilful storyteller, expertly weaving differing stories together

Slow burn horror crossed with a powerfully feminist coming-of-age novel . . . this book will haunt your dreams.

Beautifully sinister and beguiling, The Year of the Witching is blood-drenched, horrific and enchanting from start to finish.

Bone-chilling and breathtakingly beautiful . . . The Year of the Witching is storytelling at its finest.

The Year of the Witching blew me away. It's a masterpiece.

A masterfully eerie, feminist story that binds itself to the reader's mind and won't let go. Alexis Henderson is an author to watch.

Gothic, dark and utterly enthralling, this is a world I wanted to sink into and never leave. I adored this book.

The Year of the Witching tells a universal, timeless story about women's power.

The perfect dark, witchy escape to make you feel a little better about the world we live in now.

Alexis Henderson is giving us dark magic, Black witches, creepy woods and small religious towns, historical realness, and I'm here for it.

This is an intensely dark read and one of the most original books I've read in a long time.

Henderson blends the supernatural with the real, expertly and ingeniously using dark witchcraft, sigils, and magical plagues to weave in real world themes and issues like racism, the oppression and silencing of women, and religious abuse.

This is one of the best, righteously angriest books I've read this year, and I cannot recommend it enough.

The novel is not dead when we have writers as curious, daring and honest as Nicola Barker. Her latest is downright exquisite.

A madly brilliant little book … I loved it.

It marks a cautious pivot away from the involutions of H(A)PPY and The Cauliflower, back towards the highly distinctive take on literary realism that characterizes Barker’s earlier work.

Gobbled all of this down all of this 209 page gem on a single long-haul flight. Set in a single 20-minute house viewing in Llandudno with a bafflingly diverse cast of characters. It shouldn’t work but I thought it was super.

Knocked me sideways … It’s so masterful and meta. The narrative style is elegant and frenetic

[A]bsurdly well-researched, prescient and pin-sharp [...] so definitely pick it up'

[I]t's thrillingly, DELICIOUSLY fascinating about How We Live Now. She's a MINE of information- philosophy, science, literature, stats, all pulled together in her coolly elegant prose. I could not put it down!

These 242 pages are an (exhaustive, though not depressing) middle-finger to the word 'should'. A word which justifies women feeling the need to constantly scrutinise every decision; in the name of self-improvement, in order to have the Best Life Possible, at a hundred miles an hour.

Energetic and compelling.

Sykes stays true to "High Low" form by using a high-low mix of vocabulary ... We have all had moments of asking ourselves if we are doing "this" - gestures vaguely - right, which makes the book all the more likeable. This is a form of learning how to succeed by failing - as it admits to being human.

Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.

This will spark a thousand conversations and encourage us to find our own path to contentment.

Hailed as a manifesto for modern women ... packed with her trademark wit, wisdom and philosophical references (if you know her, you know), this book is the opposite of doom and gloom. Instead, her judgement free observations are reassuring, comforting and wholeheartedly uplifting.

Rushdie is a master storyteller who weaves his fictions and characters into such agreeable tapestries.

The novel's dazzling virtuosity and cascade of cultural references culminate in a final moving moment of hope