“Encyclopaedic and comprehensive” – The Revolutionists by Jason Burke
“A wild ride” – The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn
“Piercingly prescient” – The White Desert by Luis Lopez Carrasco
“Real love” – Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt
“Never fails to impress” – John of John by Douglas Stuart
“Fragmentary, repetitive, brief, oblique” – Event Horizon by Balsam Karam (trans. Saskia Vogel)
“Long may he plough his persistent furrow” – The Assembly of Swans by Magnus Mills
“Gooey, rich and a bit too much” – Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie A. Fiedler
“Plenty here to keep the Constant Reader happy” – Never Flinch by Stephen King
“Heed those storm clouds, folks” – Noisy Valley (The Art of Protest) by Myfanwy Tristram
“This is the world of work” – The Expansion Project by Ben Pester
“Wonderful stuff” – Hunger & Thirst by Claire Fuller
“Didn’t live up to the plaudits” – Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
“A must-read” – Ripeness by Sarah Moss
“Firmly ok” – Other People’s Children by Ben Faccini
“A beguiling read” – Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
“‘This plebian scum posturing and leering in their victory’” – Men in Love by Irvine Welsh
Love Forms by Claire Adam #bookerlonglist2025
“A respite of sorts from all the horror” – The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
“A hit” – Our Deadly Summer by Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght
“Everything both newly born and ancient dust in London all-at-once” – I Hear a New World by Alan Moore
“Rich with anecdotal shockers” – Monsters in the Archive by Caroline Bicks
“Warm and comforting” – The Bodyguard Affair by Amy Lea
“One of Geoff Dyer’s best books” – Homework by Geoff Dyer
“Eavesdropping on an entire city” – The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine
“The beauty of its telling” – Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry #bookerlonglist2023
“Worth reading just for Barry’s flamboyant language” – A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
“Vividly painted” – Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
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