"This is as good as anything he’s written – a novel to cherish...."

"One for fans only...."

"a compelling, big-hearted, emotionally precise page-turner..."

"a quietly devastating mystery novel..."

"a modern Pinocchio tale..."

"The west of Ireland teems with canny characters and vivid language in the author’s third collection..."

"Splendid stuff, but the mixture is too rich...."

"what most hampers the novel is its unevenness of style..."

"Trio is a delight, one of Boyd’s best novels..."

"(a) painstakingly researched and impressively realised exploration of deeply human geographies..."

"there’s an aptly gothic tinge to the tense drama that ensues..."

"This humorous novel wisely goes for jokes over biting satire..."

"After parting from her boyfriend, thirtysomething Nina gives internet dating another go in this masterpiece of modern manners..."

"The prose is exact and clear..."

"Lee Child hands over the Reacher franchise to his brother — who transforms the fabulously taciturn Jack into a loquacious pedant..."

"His short, bracingly bleak new novel about a catastrophic system failure is DeLillo distilled..."

"A coming-of-age story as much as an espionage novel..."

"Everyone has a story in this subtlety written, yet grand, sweep through German-run colonial times..."

"an unconventional village murder-mystery..."

"terrifyingly macabre..."

"charming, cosy and respectful..."

"Despite an over-reliance on coincidences, Three-Fifths is compelling and powerfully moving..."

"a beautiful and profound crime novel..."

"A wife takes an unusual vengeance for her husband’s infidelity in this sharp novel about the constraints of domesticity..."

"Compelling, formally innovative and beautifully conceived, this is an unusual and deeply rewarding novel..."

"Mendez is subversive in other ways too: he flirts with tragedy only to sidestep it..."

"the most theological of Robinson’s novels, bound by religious paradox and poetic impossibility...."

"These entertainments are brisk, vinegar-sharp satires that horrify and amuse in equal measure; an alarming reality check..."

"an endlessly disorientating, haunting and funny experience..."