"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..."

" 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..."

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

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

"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..."

"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..."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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..."

"deliciously horrid horror..."

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

"compelling tale of London property noir..."

"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..."

"smart and funny..."

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

"a warts-and-all look at what goes on behind the camera..."

"(a) powerful and poignant lament to those rendered invisible in the past..."

"Is Stephen King a horror writer or a crime writer these days?..."