Book reviews, June 2025
40 books reviewed by the critics in June 2025, most-reviewed first.
Electric Spark
Frances Wilson
4 of 4 critics positive · 11 reviews
A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern
2 of 7 critics positive · 7 reviews
Among Friends
Hal Ebbott
4 of 5 critics positive · 7 reviews
Bring the House Down
Charlotte Runcie
4 of 4 critics positive · 7 reviews
How Not to Be a Political Wife
Sarah Vine
1 of 7 critics positive · 7 reviews
How to Lose Your Mother
Molly Jong-Fast
5 of 6 critics positive · 7 reviews
Flashlight
Susan Choi
2 of 3 critics positive · 6 reviews
The Benefactors
Wendy Erskine
5 of 5 critics positive · 6 reviews
Endling
Maria Reva
4 of 4 critics positive · 5 reviews
Saraswati
Gurnaik Johal
3 of 3 critics positive · 5 reviews
The Möbius Book
Catherine Lacey
3 of 4 critics positive · 5 reviews
Against Identity
Alexander Douglas
3 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
Going Nuclear
Tim Gregory
1 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
Elaine Feeney
4 of 4 critics positive · 4 reviews
Twelve Post-War Tales
Graham Swift
4 of 4 critics positive · 4 reviews
Brotherless Night
V. V. Ganeshananthan
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Great Black Hope
Rob Franklin
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
It Used to Be Witches
Ryan Gilbey
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Sexual Evolution
Nathan H. Lents
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Irene Solà
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Lessons for Young Artists
David Gentleman
1 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Love Forms
Claire Adam
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Muckle Flugga
Michael Pedersen
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Salvage
Jennifer Mills
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Sanctuary
Marina Warner
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Original
Nell Stevens
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Wait Here
Lucy Nelson
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
A Trick of the Mind
Daniel Yon
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Beastly Britain
Karen R. Jones
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Dragon on Centre Street
Jonah Bromwich
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Fragile Minds
Bella Jackson
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Hark
Alice Vincent
1 review, verdicts not stated · 1 review
King of Dirt
Holden Sheppard
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Not My Type
E. Jean Carroll
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Our New Gods
Thomas Vowles
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Super Natural
Alex Riley
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Cuckoo’s Lea
Michael J. Warren
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Three Revolutions
Simon Hall
1 review, verdicts not stated · 1 review
Witness in a Time of Turmoil
Ian Mayes
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review