"this novel deserves a standing ovation..."

"Low is a novel that sounds more interesting than it really is...."

"brimming with empathy as well as indignation, this novel engagingly extends Adiga’s fictional concern with deprivation and injustice..."

" It is a treatise and a howl of anger dressed up in novel form..."

"Highfire is deliciously funny at times. In a sea of forgettable modern fantasy titles, it offers moments of genuine originality..."

"the writing can be exquisite – more like prose poetry than cash-in-hand fiction..."

"This smart, funny novel about social media and modern romance from the author of Animals mixes humour with grief and betrayal..."

"the mystery that keeps unravelling, like blood, truth and memory...."

"Philip Hensher’s novel about ageing student radicals is elegant and warm-hearted,..."

"told with a chilly aloofness that makes the horror of it all the more disturbing..."

"The weird and wonderful world of the Brontës is brought to life in beautiful, blazing colour..."

"Swiftly read — swiftly forgotten..."

"Price is a poet, as one can deduce from his prose without the help of the blurb on the jacket..."

"It’s a commanding, if demanding, read..."

"Murray offers not only a well-realised apocalypse but a plausible vision of politicians willing to do anything, however hein­ous, to preserve their nation’s standing..."

"this novel is more than anything about borders, about the arbitrary separation of peoples into nations..."

"a brisk, well-wrought piece of entertainment..."

"What shines through is the author’s unbridled passion for classic literature, particularly its brooding anti-heroes..."

"Pine wraps folk-horror trappings around a tale of grief and loneliness set in the Scottish Highlands..."

"The dialogue and plot move at a cracking pace, and the sympathetically drawn characters are oven-ready for a TV series..."

"a colourful, memorable story about women’s minds and bodies, and the time-honoured tradition of doubting both..."

"terrifyingly atmospheric story of the monstrous consequences of greed and power..."

"a tale of woe to rival Juliet and her Romeo..."

"Elegant, compelling and full of melancholy beauty..."

"...a brilliant exemplar for the autofictional method..."