Professor Sarah Gilbert and Dr Cath Green – Vaxxers
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times bestseller
What an enthralling tale of toil, tenacity and triumph. Rachel Clarke
This is one of the most epic and pioneering moments in human history, comparable to the race to put a man on the moon, the discovering of DNA, or the first ascent of Everest. Jeremy Farrar
Hans Rosling – Factfulness
Sunday Times number one bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Bill Gates summer read, Barack Obama summer read
One of the most important books I’ve ever read – an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.
Bill Gates
Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly. Melinda Gates
David Dimbleby – Keep Talking: A Broadcasting Life
… thoughtful, very readable and nostalgia-inducing memoirs …
Andrew Billen, The Times
Pithy and amusing … Rosamund Irwin, Sunday Times
Anya Hindmarch – If In Doubt, Wash Your Hair
Sunday Times bestseller
I’ve been waiting for this book all my life and everyone needs to read it. Claudia Winkelman
Comforting, practical and beautifully personal. This book feels like your best friend telling you it’s all going to be OK. Fearne Cotton
Michael Caine – Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
Sunday Times bestseller
Caine acknowledges ghostwriter Deborah Crewe in the acknowledgments; “without her help,” he writes, “I couldn’t have written the bloody book.” Nonetheless [it] feels like talking to its author; it’s like a down-to-earth, kindhearted ramble from your nice British great-uncle, who’s led a fascinating and glamorous life but never forgot his humble roots … full of irresistibly tossed-off moments
Moria Macdonald, The Seattle Times
Caine’s writing – funny, warm, down-to-earth – will captivate fans and casual readers alike. Publishers Weekly
Ken Clarke – Kind of Blue
… [a] wonderfully engaging and entertaining memoir … Rachel Sylvester, The Times
As you turn the pages of this book you can almost hear his distinctive voice, chuckling over the anecdotes. Rachel Sylvester, The Times
This book is like a fine old wine. It is to be savoured … Whoever edited it did a fine job as the whole book is authentically Ken. His voice rings through every paragraph, sentence and word. Iain Dale
Jack Straw – Last Man Standing
… lucid, engaging, humorous … Chris Mullin, The Times
… [a] well-told, humane and entertaining tale of high office. Anne McElvoy, The Sunday Times
… Unexpectedly interesting … His put-downs are few and far between, but all the more devastating for being so measured and euphemistic. Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday
Lady Trumpington – Coming Up Trumps
… What a joy this book is… a fascinating, frequently hilarious insight into the life of a force of nature. Rachel Cooke, The Observer
… Her ghost writer has done her proud. It’s heaven, and everyone who opens it will fall in love with her. Rachel Cooke, The Observer
… Shut your eyes – this is one of the acid tests of a good memoir – and you can almost hear the baroness in full flow, holding forth over a whisky in a bar in the House of Lords. David Robson, The Daily Telegraph
… I doubt if there will be a funnier memoir this year. The Mail on Sunday
Sunday Times bestseller – selected by The Guardian as one of the best politics books of 2014 – selected by the Mail on Sunday as one of its Summer Reads for 2014
Anna Birch – Call The Vet
… a lovely read that had me laughing one minute and crying the next. thebookbag.co.uk
… She handles all the many threads of her story with a deft touch to capture humour and the anguish that inevitably comes with animals. The good outcomes put a song in the heart. The losses simply break it. Blackmore Vale Magazine
…The literary love child of James Herriot and Bridget Jones. Dorset Life
Tracy Mackness – Jail Bird
… A brutally honest, up front, heart breaking and heart warming life story. Amazon Reviewer
… This is a book that really makes you sit up and take notice … Written as Tracy would be telling it to you if you were sitting opposite her in a pub and she was recounting it to you, she draws you in, shakes you up and then puts you back down again. Amazon Reviewer
… Wow. What a story! What a character! Tracy Mackness saw so much of the underworld during her time as a petty (then not-so-petty criminal) in 1980s and 1990s Essex and during her long stints in prison. She is a true survivor and tells her tale of bad times then transformation to successful business woman incredibly well. A great read. Amazon Reviewer
Sir Hugh Sykes – Lighting the Furnace
… If every business man or woman were like Hugh Sykes, private enterprise would be universally applauded, and our economy would grow wings. There is much to learn from him. Sir John Major