"it’s tremendous fun..."

"Anam’s writing is stylish and funny..."

"This selection of the gifted writer’s work is stuffed with wonders..."

"gives the inner reality of blue-collar life a respect and attention it rarely gets..."

"a brooding, gothic-tinged coming-of-age tale..."

"Annie is a lively..."

"it is a long shaggy dog story — and, in its rarefied way, occasionally very funny..."

" highlights Macneal’s rich imagination and vivid prose..."

"gives a twist to familiar myth by offering the perspective of the women characters..."

"There is no doubt that McInerney is a writer of great gifts and boundless ambition..."

"it is cleverly constructed..."

"so tense, so full of jeopardy, that it makes many thrillers feel underpowered..."

"It’s elegantly done, a portrait veiled in quiet melancholy..."

"As a novelist Freud hits that tricky sweet spot between commercial and literary fiction and her novels are invariably a joy to read...."

"(A) colourful, compelling first novel..."

" a timely consideration of Hong Kong’s recent past..."

"Haunting and very dark, this is certainly worth the read..."

"a solid and well-constructed police procedural..."

"gently humorous and always humane..."

"These neatly crafted short stories find poetry in the rituals of domesticity..."

"This is a brisk, impudent, utterly immersive novel that also wants to answer questions about Jews and history ..."

" complex and occasionally convoluted, ending in a terrific set-piece legal showdown..."

"an electrifying gothic techno-thriller..."

"Haunting and heart-wrenching, this book is reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier...."

"Full of twists... wrongfooting the increasingly uneasy reader at every turn...."

"It is a delight to dip into his sun-baked world..."

"This college-life narrative has an eye for comedy even when the narrator is enjoying a moment of self-pity..."

" a melodrama of honour and shame..."

"Kennard is very funny, and this novel abounds in pithy, wry observations and situational comedy. ..."

"unapologetically escapist beach-read fiction,..."

"she skilfully adapts it to a contemporary British setting in which our obsessions with class and keeping up appearances are weaknesses ripe for exploitation...."

"his grip on the mechanics of storytelling is highly assured..."