Reviews
The Error World
‘Read this book (I recommend you do) and you'll never lick a stamp the same way again’
John Sutherland, Financial Times
‘An engrossing, effervescent portrayal of the way life pleats back on
itself ... Occasionally bracing and consistently winning.' TLS
‘Garfield manages to make stamps and the people who collect them quite fascinating. Most of these Hornbyesque memoirs of obsession have a strong narrative line. This one doesn’t – it’s more cleverly construced than that.’
Marcus Berkmann, Mail On Sunday
Our Hidden Lives
‘The year’s most compulsively readable book’
Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
‘I have not read a more engrossing book in years’
John Carey, Sunday Times
‘Diaries that will rewrite our history…simple but brilliant…by turns poignant, shocking, informative and very funny’
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
‘Profound with the mysteries of the everyday…time has transformed their trivial entries into the sublime; their important days will always resonate’
Guardian
We Are At War
‘Fascinating, delightful, illuminating’
Daily Mail
‘A mesmerising read…indispensible to a fuller understanding of the Second World War’
Juliet Gardiner, BBC History Magazine
Private Battles
‘Poignant…strange…fascinating. Makes our wartime past seem no more distant than yesterday’
Mail on Sunday
‘Enthralling’
Observer
The Wrestling
‘A brilliant piece of work which manages the considerable feat of being hilariously funny without slyness or mockery.’
Harry Pearson, Independent
‘A remarkable story of men crippled by he game, ruthlessly exploited by promoters, but beloved by the public.’
Guardian
‘As close as anyone will get to the authentic voice of British wrestling’
Financial Times
The Nation’s Favourite
‘Deliciously unputdownable’
Sunday Times
An hilarious, highly intelligent and elegant in-depth eye-opener’
Mail on Sunday
‘Half Carry On Up Yer Wireless, half John Grisham’
TLS
‘The cruel slights and shameless sucking up have rarely been better dissected’
Independent
Mauve
‘A book about science which also happens to be a miniature work of art’
Hugh Massingberd, Daily Telegraph
‘Beautifully written…Making chemistry appealing is a challenge at the best of times, but Garfield rises to it.’
Ben Crystall, New Scientist
‘By bringing William Perkin into the open and documenting his life and work, Garfield has done a service to history’
Chicago Tribune
The Last Journey of William Huskisson
‘Garfield has written an instant winner of a yarn. He steams ahead like Stephenson’s Rocket.’
Jonathan Sale, Independent
‘Railways are Simon garfield’s passion, and his infectious enthusiasm makes his book all the more engaging’
Alan Judd, Spectator
‘Garfield’s story is at once a history of the railway as well as an account of Huskisson’s eventful life…by linking the conflict between progress and reaction to the tussle between Huskisson’s liberal leanings and the ultra-Conservatism of Wellington’s government, Garfield has created a vibrant picture of the time.’
Times
The End of Innocence
A remarkable journalistic achievement. Combines the best qualities of a medical thriller, a political investigation, and an invaluable social record of a disease which has already taken so many of our youngest and brightest.’
Time Out
A powerful and painful book. Garfield gives us the whole story in a voice which is passionate in intent, but controlled and conversational.
Andrew Motion, Observer
A brilliantly anecdotal tale of political intrigue, wasted opportunities and financial mismanagement. It shows how we went from being a nation notorious for its reticence about sex to one which seemed to talk about nothing else.’
Health Service Journal