"I love lists. This beautiful coffee table book compiles a diverse and fascinating collection of the real lists made by major and minor figures across history. A wonderful and worthwhile book to get lost in."

"Quite simply one of the strongest and most impressive feature debuts in cinematic history. The end sequence, with its fused alchemy of opera, movement, and camera as Lou Castel writhes on the floor, is unforgettable."

"If this were the only cultural history of the 1960s you read, you'd get it a whole lot more than most white male boomers who thought the 60s were about making everything cool for everybody, man."

"A history of British food that has the same, odd, dreamy, lysergic air as Through The Looking Glass. Takes you through an England of roast swans, possets, syllabubs, gold-leaf jellies, boiled elvers, and elderflower fritters."

"And maybe that is just because when Grace Kelly goes to kiss Jimmy Stewart that first time it was just one of those things where it is the best special effect in the history of time"