Vertigo & Ghost explodes into furious life with a series of poems and fragments about the Greek god Zeus... jagged, staccato poems that shoot down the pages like lightning bolts... an addictive, thrilling, sickening experience.

Vertigo & Ghost knocked the breath from me. Such furious, fierce, ecstatic poems, at once brutal and heartachingly tender; I lay awake at night unable to stop thinking about them. Mothers and children, girls and women, their vulnerabilities and sorrows, fears amidst grave danger, their beautiful animal selves. Against a frightening darkness, these "sore jewels" radiate wild white-heat.

This extraordinarily moving collection is a bold confrontation of violence against women. Vertigo & Ghost is one of the darkest, bravest and most unsettling collections I have read in a while.

An exceptional achievement.

[A] tour-de-force... [Vertigo & Ghost] has generated a lot of (justified) buzz... poems of lasting power.

Though this is only her second collection, it’s already clear that Fiona Benson is an exceptional and exceptionally gifted poet. She has a fine ear and a sure hand. Her poems engage with what in our inner lives is most crucial and most at risk. There are poems in this book that scour the skin and must be read.

Promise me you'll read these aloud... [Vertigo & Ghost is] brilliantly chilling... Flick to a random page, take a deep breath, and dive in.

Misogynistic violence, ancient myth and modern rage confront each other in moving and dynamic verse.

Benson is one of the finest English poets writing today.

[Benson] is bravely and unfashionably, a high Romantic.

A fizzy new homage... Schott burnishes the gleam.

Glorious . . . undeniably an impressive, hugely enjoyable feat of ventriloquism.

It is hard not to warm to this hugely entertaining homage.

The cast is a delight, with many characters who will be familiar to Wodehouse aficionados . . . his prose is elegant and charming and he captures the lilt and rhythms of the original . . . a warm, worthy and rollicking tribute.

This joyous and thoughtful tribute leaves you wanting more.

By Jove! It's a ripping old yarn... Dashed agreeably close to the master.

A hugely enjoyable caper

There are laughs and admirable ingenuity in Schott’s confection

A book that is so close in spirit and style to the PG Wodehouse originals it’s like the real thing

Top-notch fun.

Succeeds triumphantly, both as light entertainment and as a tribute to the master

In his first foray into PG Wodehouse homage/imitation/pastiche (whichever it may be) Schott appeared to hit the Wodehouse target dead on.

Jonathan Coe's Middle England is brilliantly insightful on the times we are living in

Let me add to the chorus of praise for Jonathan Coe's new book Middle England. Easily my favourite of his since What a Carve Up! Which did for Thatcherism what Middle England does for Brexit

An astute, enlightened and enlightening journey into the heart of our current national identity crisis. Both moving and funny. As we'd expect from Coe

From post-industrial Birmingham to the London riots and the current political gridlock, it takes in family, literature and love in a comedy for our times

Coe can make you smile, sigh, laugh; he has abundant sympathy for his characters

This book is sublimely good. State of the (Brexit) nation novel to end them all, but also funny, tender, generous, so human and intelligent about age and love as well as politics

Probably the best English novelist of his generation

No modern novelist is better at charting the precariousness of middle-class life

An angry and exuberant book

Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the most entertaining chroniclers of our times

You can't stop reading....I was haunted for days