A family story that everyone can enjoy

For all its darkness, [The Nutcracker] appeals to parents and their children because it's like one of those glowing glass globes that you can shake and see the snow swirl. It's a dream bubble, a vision of middle-class happiness and fantasy that precedes the Russian Revolution and all the horrors of the last century and this one. That world may have faded, but it is still our sweetest dream

An enduring Christmas classic

Like Hansel And Gretel, The Nutcracker is a slightly dark story, but it s also magical...a world of childhood imagination

'Richard Beard's prose is dry, nonchalant and fluent'

Lashings of excitement, colour and subtlety

Vivid, engaging, densely plotted - are almost certainly destined to be counted among the classics of popular fiction

Deliciously dark

‘Last Shot by Daniel José Older was aimed to give some additional back story to the relationship between Han and Lando, but ends up giving readers so much more’

A great portrayal of both Han and Lando

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