"a tour de force that crescendoes to its conclusion, reimagining the birth of Liberia in a way that is tender, humane and suffused with lyricism..."

"I was largely immune to its charms..."

"The more one reads the novel, we realise that what Holleran has given us is our very own queer (queerer?) Great Gatsby..."

"Homeland isn’t in the same league as All for Nothing; few novels are...."

"chilling..."

"Niven Govinden’s novel shows the complexity of drag balls and queer life..."

"playful but unfocused..."

"sensual but frustrating..."

"who adroitly mashes up psychological thriller and satirical campus novel..."

"relatively gripping..."

"feels chillingly relevant in the age of Trump..."

"Miracles, myths and a mystical tour round India..."

"rewards the attentive..."

"It would be no surprise to see his name on the Booker longlist..."

"shine[s] with a dark Chekhovian comedy..."

"the great procrastinator has finally produced a brilliant comic novel..."

"hugely entertaining..."

"Laura Acampora’s debut novel, set in the Holywood bubble, is gripping and nuanced..."

"The beautiful, sad story of a racist miscarriage of justice..."

"It would be a crime to give away anything more, but the end of this beautiful novel made me cry. Jones writes with intelligence and a lively wit, but there’s more — a warmth that forces you to care about these people as if you had met them...."

"readers who enjoy something haunting, atmospheric and genuinely mysterious have a treat in store..."

"a true skin-crawler..."

"a savage, blackly thrilling debut..."

"a fascinating British Asian spin on domestic noir..."

"Mick Herron is fast becoming the go-to author for British espionage..."

"carefully crafted..."

"immersive and highly enjoyable..."

"An eccentric boarding school teacher becomes a media hate figure in a novel that sidesteps conventional thrills..."

"A Homeric meditation on the Spanish civil war examines how decent men were drawn to fascism..."

"Claire McGlasson’s debut novel maps out the intriguing world of the Panacea Society..."

"an exuberant, entertaining read..."

"The survival of hope through ingenuity..."

"Malik’s great gift is to present seemingly insoluble issues of faith and intolerance in a light, accessible manner..."

"playful and inventive novel..."