He exhausts superlatives

The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials... it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling

Wise, witty, loving and caring about the foibles and frailties we all seem to have

A consummate entertainer... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly

Robert Chandler's tenderly attentive rendering of The Railway perfectly captures the dreamy, circling music of Hamid Ismailov's prose

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

Anna Maxted tells a tale of sibling rivalry with wit and emotion

Warm, poignant and very funny

Hugely funny. Maxted writes beautifully

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world