"...brilliantly strange..."

"an intensive reading experience..."

"There is a cure for pandemic gloom. What you need to do is read a funny novel about an even more deadly plague, the Black Death of the 14th century...."

"Immaculately constructed, acidly observed and gripping from start to finish, A Burning is a brilliant debut...."

"At times, the novel seems less a portrait of a relationship than a splice of two stories on the same theme..."

"Reynolds is a former freestyle snowboarder with an intimate knowledge of the sport and the rivalry it inspires..."

"At the heart of this latest novel from Booker winner Richard Flanagan there is a powerful tale of a family trying to decide whether to prolong the life of a dying relative, but some of the more fantastical elements seem out of kilter..."

"The former Granta Young British Novelist lays himself bare in a moving account of a terminated pregnancy..."

"a caustic, candid and convincing debut..."

"A new book from Harper is always an event..."

" Like its subject, The Death of Francis Bacon is tricky, wicked and wonderfully weird..."

"The Chinese writer’s novel about death and loss is meandering and muddy rather than clear..."

"Modiano’s stories circle, perhaps obsessively, around the same unhealed wounds..."

"beyond gruesome yet the horror is tempered by gallows humour..."

"The novel sounds all the tried and tested noir notes — the brutal, rain-drenched city, the divorce, the obsessive work and professional conflicts — but it makes them chime..."

"an original and absorbing piece of work..."

"Terraforming Mars was never so blue-collar..."

"scalpel-sharp and oddly moving..."

"wanders promiscuously from science fiction to fantasy to historical fiction and back again, jumbling expectations as it goes..."

"one of those exasperating books in which things seem to almost happen..."

"dazzlingly clever..."

"combines crime fiction with elements of gothic horror, set in and around a creepy village churchyard in Sussex..."

"There’s no disgrace in being formulaic when the formula is good... ripping entertainment from start to finish...."

"izzing with revolutionary fervour..."

"Jones’ debut novel is a marvel..."

"a gripping and sharply comic account..."

"the collection feels fully coherent by the end..."

"Sharp exploration of privilege in modern America..."

" told with such authentic detachedness that you could almost miss it..."

"a bold novel addressing timely and controversial issues..."

" a gripping and thoughtful novel, taut with narrative suspense and brimming with emotional insight..."