"it’s tremendous fun..."

"Annie is a lively..."

"it is a long shaggy dog story — and, in its rarefied way, occasionally very funny..."

" highlights Macneal’s rich imagination and vivid prose..."

"gives a twist to familiar myth by offering the perspective of the women characters..."

"There is no doubt that McInerney is a writer of great gifts and boundless ambition..."

"it is cleverly constructed..."

"Anam’s writing is stylish and funny..."

"This selection of the gifted writer’s work is stuffed with wonders..."

"a brooding, gothic-tinged coming-of-age tale..."

"gives the inner reality of blue-collar life a respect and attention it rarely gets..."

"It’s elegantly done, a portrait veiled in quiet melancholy..."

"so tense, so full of jeopardy, that it makes many thrillers feel underpowered..."

"As a novelist Freud hits that tricky sweet spot between commercial and literary fiction and her novels are invariably a joy to read...."

"(A) colourful, compelling first novel..."

" a timely consideration of Hong Kong’s recent past..."

"a solid and well-constructed police procedural..."

"gently humorous and always humane..."

"These neatly crafted short stories find poetry in the rituals of domesticity..."

"Haunting and very dark, this is certainly worth the read..."

"This is a brisk, impudent, utterly immersive novel that also wants to answer questions about Jews and history ..."

" complex and occasionally convoluted, ending in a terrific set-piece legal showdown..."

"Haunting and heart-wrenching, this book is reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier...."

"Full of twists... wrongfooting the increasingly uneasy reader at every turn...."

"It is a delight to dip into his sun-baked world..."

"an electrifying gothic techno-thriller..."

"This college-life narrative has an eye for comedy even when the narrator is enjoying a moment of self-pity..."

"Kennard is very funny, and this novel abounds in pithy, wry observations and situational comedy. ..."

"unapologetically escapist beach-read fiction,..."

" a melodrama of honour and shame..."

"A veteran of the Spanish civil war is visited by the ghost of Franco in a deftly handled story of past trauma and deceit..."

" gripping narrative, compelling structure and vivid characters..."