"...clever, satisfying, and often playful..."

"(a) dazzling and accomplished collection from the South Korean writer Kim Bo-young..."

"This is natural history as police procedural; and life on Earth as the scene of a crime...."

"the book delivers on the huge, mind-bending promise made in its first few pages...."

"To get a feel for The Loop, imagine if the TV series Stranger Things lost its sense of humour. ..."

"lashings of local mysticism and a flair for transgressive imagery make her an arrestingly original talent..."

"Twisted, dark and fizzing with fury, it’s a lot of fun...."

"Lighthearted, witty and effortlessly clever, just like its wonderful heroine..."

"a striking first novel, a chilling insight into an oppressive world, where bad thoughts and bad deeds ripple just below the surface..."

"deliciously sinister and obsessive, an immersive journey into a world where ballet is everything, with one hell of a twist...."

"Anthony Quinn’s latest period novel extends his richly pleasurable and loosely connected series portraying London down the decades..."

"melancholy, tender, comic..."

"Bear is a bizarre but strangely uplifting book about a woman’s quest for freedom..."

"an insightful study into a period of history often overlooked in fiction..."

"explores the optimistic and pessimistic implications of life’s persistence..."

"yes, it’s fun, but it’s not substantial. Still, perhaps that’s enough..."

"candid and darkly funny..."

"sharply funny and astute..."

"a gentle, hopeful story..."

"an unusual and thoroughly enjoyable read..."

"Samson’s novel is sharply observant of the personal price paid by the island’s female muses..."

"her pacy thriller is a persuasive account of the terrible cost of living a double life..."

"My advice: buy the short stories and then buy this book and read them back-to-back...."

"In this coming-of-age story set in a near-future England, a teenager discovers life’s possibilities as climate chaos intensifies..."

"a tense, pacy read..."

" Mir offers us a fascinating glimpse into a world rarely portrayed in fiction..."

"Flynn keeps the tension bubbling nicely..."

"is a work in the great Scottish gothic tradition..."

"The Old Enemy has an old-style, mid-Atlantic feel to it but it is no less gripping for that..."

"Motel, money, murder, madness: it has all you need to keep you happy..."

"a distinctly more thought-provoking novel than is customary in the genre..."