Ruta Sepetys is the finest writer of historical fiction working today.

[A] towering work of historical insight.

A stunning novel that exposes modern fascism and elevates human resilience.

Captivating, deft, and illuminating historical fiction.

Spain under Francisco Franco is as dystopian a setting as Margaret Atwood's Gilead in Ruta Sepetys's suspenseful, romantic and timely new work of historical fiction.

An exemplary work of historical fiction.

Gripping.

A huge achievement, as deep as it is wide, this is a book like no other of these times

Redemption Falls is trauma incarnate, but its effect is both compassionate and luminous

Books of this quality demand to be reread to reveal more of their complexities and layers of meaning. Redemption Falls would reward this on the level of its rich textures of language alone

Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as an important public intellectual and perhaps America's most incisive thinker about race.

Slavery, forgetting and memory are at the heart of Coates's ambitious, compelling first novel...

A rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale

High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting