"There are no happy endings in this nastily funny phantasmagoria set in a warped version of England..."

"On Swift Horses is worth reading for the poetry alone..."

"This is a most strange and tormented story, part psychoanalytic confession and part meditation on man’s cruel relationship with nature..."

"This lightly sketched tale moves towards an inevitable conclusion ..."

"Grandmothers makes for absorbing, undemanding reading..."

"the best so far of an unmissable series..."

"This collection is luminous and breathtaking, varied and delightful and surprising..."

"Handke’s politics trivialise Bosnian suffering, yet his writing also gives words to the voiceless ordeals long considered too mundane for literature..."

"for the most part he writes with wonderful delicacy and multiplicity..."

"In our hyper-satirical age, Eggers’ proposal is just too modest..."

"An extraordinary collection of surreal tales takes in time travel, molluscs and monks..."

"Astonishing... a landmark epic..."

"“This Is Happiness” is as full of detours and backward glances as it is of forward motion..."

"a profound tale of certain entropy..."

"(a) darkly transcendent novel filled with phantasmagoric visions, body horror and tortured beings traversing a blasted desert hellscape..."

"The strength of O’Brien’s work, apart from lyricism, has always been its reliable specificity...."

"this compilation of his favourite funny stories offers material both hilarious and unusual..."

"the main reason to read Sudden Traveller is simply to bask in Hall’s formidable, righteous language..."

"There are many things in The Topeka School that are more eloquent than words..."

"There’s something pleasurable and astute to be found on every page...."

"feels at once more real – because less cartoony – and more sentimental than her earlier books..."

"Here really is a world, thrillingly imagined and under the surface entirely like our own..."

" a shrewd, skilful tale of loneliness, the search for meaning and a place in the world, and the problems of truly relating to another human being..."

"Intriguing debut about life as a Ghanaian immigrant..."

"there is a warmth and a humanity in Aciman’s prose that enraptures with its slow, easy embrace..."

"Andrew Michael Hurley returns to a strange but familiar terrain..."

"Cruz Smith at his best: ace storytelling with dry, laconic dialogue and a crumpled but courageous hero...."

"Wartime Paris is lovingly depicted: the smell of wet leaves, the taste of chicory coffee, the flics in their rain capes, a loaded glance across a café. Most of all, the sense of menace...."

"Intensely human characters, a cracking storyline and vivid scene-setting make The Last Hunt one of Meyer’s best...."

"Buenos Aires in the 1960s, home to remnants of the Third Reich in exile, is brought chillingly to life..."

" the attempts to modernise the series with subtle nods to modern popular culture are intriguing..."

"these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent..."

"a clear-eyed and frequently very funny satire on psychogeography’s false solaces..."