An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia, Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid and perverse... The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised Lucy Westenra, is my favourite

It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror

In my opinion Dracula is about how suffocating Victorian times were. The bonus is, you get vampires!

Very funny...I cracked up laughing on the tube

The Winter of the Witch, the third in Katherine Arden's magical Winternight Trilogy, creates a layered world full of Russian myths and legends

A historical fantasy perfect for those who love ancient stories and tradition

Like McEwan's other work, The Cockroach is a beautifully written novella and an in-depth critique of Britain's current political situation… I found this an exciting and inventive retelling of Kafka's classic tale, and a clever commentary on not just Brexit, but modern British politics as a whole.

An extraordinary book which can truly be said to break new ground

The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book

Sensitive, thoughtful and rich with the spoils of its author's plunder of the past

This is a tremendous book: affecting, intelligent, ironic, humane and utterly convincing. It is also extremely funny

A brilliant read

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

High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting