"It’s rare to find such a programmatic opposition between the procedures of a book and the values behind it..."

"One can appreciate the novel for its quiet humour and compassionate consideration of the everyday, unfashionable and unloved..."

"comfort and wit, compassion and philosophical stimulation..."

"A lightly sketched social history of postwar Britain..."

" Sex and Vanity is a straight-up retelling of A Room With a View. ..."

"a Schrödinger’s drama in which the action spirals out from an enormous maybe, resulting in a paranoia-filled page-turner..."

"demonstrates a broadening out of his ambition..."

"It shouldn’t work, but it does..."

"Rhodes writes beautifully crafted psychological thrillers..."

"(a) timely and clever investigation of otherness and sameness..."

"The reverse storytelling here is dispatched adroitly..."

"a penetrating and ultimately sympathetic character study..."

"an exhilarating and moving story of an Ireland in disarray..."

"an indictment on race and class in America..."

"A Theatre for Dreamers is a thoroughly enjoyable drama of hedonism, enchantment and emotional beastliness..."

"the timing of Paul Tremblay’s Survivor Song is either excellent or appalling..."

"Devolution deftly incorporates “real-world” history..."

"Despentes has produced a rock ’n’roll Odyssey, but arguably with better women...."

"a masterly, far-reaching exploration of a de-industrialized country..."

"Politics and intimacy collide constantly in Tomasz Jedrowski’s enthralling debut..."

"a highly enjoyable novel, convincingly and smoothly translated by Anne Milano Appel..."

"When this novel is funny, it’s seriously funny..."

"The emotional memories of an elderly German woman are brought vividly to life in this quietly moving graphic story..."

"The competing social forces emerging in 1980s Italy are somewhat clumsily embodied through Pieri’s many characters,..."

"compelling tale of London property noir..."

"deliciously horrid horror..."

"smart and funny..."

"This Happy is at its strongest when Alannah is alone..."

"Elizabeth Wetmore takes a multi-faceted look at a serious assault set against the hardscrabble world of 1970s West Texas..."

"The 70something protagonists of this glorious, forthright novel are less afraid of death than of irrelevance..."

"Combining fast-paced plotting with Alagiah’s deep knowledge of the region..."

"If you’ve come up with a protagonist your readers have taken to their hearts, it makes sense to maintain that affection..."

"Jeffery Deaver mines new territory in The Goodbye Man..."

"Rumours of the death of Scandicrime are greatly exaggerated, as The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Bjorg Ægisdottir proves..."