The Guardian book reviews
12 of the 15 The Guardian reviews here with a stated verdict were positive.
MixedSwan Song: Diana, My Sister · Charles Spencer“a furious exercise in score-settling by Diana’s brother”RaveStations · Louise Kennedy“a superb follow-up to Trespasses”PositiveDodge City · Patrick deWitt“committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice”RaveThe Great Dictator · Matthew Sweet“A brilliant new biography”MixedDèy · Edwidge Danticat“lacks the power of earlier works”PositiveOn the Equality of All Things · Carlo Rovelli“a physicist’s guide to life, the universe and everything”Verdict not statedRange · Dorthe NorsRaveDeep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 · David Kynaston“a tour de force of popular history”PositiveThe Young Man · Annie Ernaux“an expert dissection of sex, age and power”PositiveFierceland · Omar Musa“pulses with life”PositiveNight People · Mark Ronson“Nerdery triumphs over gossip in this earnest but compelling memoir”PositiveRhapsody: A Manifesto · Alice Oswald“A twisting, beguiling investigation into the art of poetry”PositiveThe Mercy Step · Marcia Hutchinson“tenderly written coming-of-age tale”PositiveI Can’t Tell You But I Will · Magda Szubanski“an insightful, elegant, anti-celebrity memoir”PositiveThe Fall of the West · Owen Jones“a bracing history of the changing world order”MixedThe Long Cloud · Hector Mackenzie“isn’t as profound as it aims to be”