"Astonishing... a landmark epic..."

"(a) darkly transcendent novel filled with phantasmagoric visions, body horror and tortured beings traversing a blasted desert hellscape..."

"The pot-shots are bitingly funny. ..."

"The strength of O’Brien’s work, apart from lyricism, has always been its reliable specificity...."

"There are many things in The Topeka School that are more eloquent than words..."

" a shrewd, skilful tale of loneliness, the search for meaning and a place in the world, and the problems of truly relating to another human being..."

"Here really is a world, thrillingly imagined and under the surface entirely like our own..."

"feels at once more real – because less cartoony – and more sentimental than her earlier books..."

"As with her previous novels, Vickers has a keen ear for dialogue and there are moments of wry humour..."

"Intriguing debut about life as a Ghanaian immigrant..."

"The narrator of Suncatcher comes of age in Colombo in 1964, against a backdrop of political chaos and whispers of revolution..."

"Buenos Aires in the 1960s, home to remnants of the Third Reich in exile, is brought chillingly to life..."

"Andrew Michael Hurley returns to a strange but familiar terrain..."

"Wartime Paris is lovingly depicted: the smell of wet leaves, the taste of chicory coffee, the flics in their rain capes, a loaded glance across a café. Most of all, the sense of menace...."

"Intensely human characters, a cracking storyline and vivid scene-setting make The Last Hunt one of Meyer’s best...."

"Cruz Smith at his best: ace storytelling with dry, laconic dialogue and a crumpled but courageous hero...."

"there is a warmth and a humanity in Aciman’s prose that enraptures with its slow, easy embrace..."

" the attempts to modernise the series with subtle nods to modern popular culture are intriguing..."

"these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent..."

"a clear-eyed and frequently very funny satire on psychogeography’s false solaces..."

"much of the joy of The Tenth Muse derives from Chung’s writing, which is unadorned but expressive, shot through with moments of sparse lyricism..."

"A story can do and be whatever it wants, this collection seems to be saying..."

"Through her powerful command of language, she eases the reader into her nightmarish fairytale..."

"a stunning conclusion to a trilogy that expands our understanding of what science fiction can do...."

"Saskia Vogel’s prose has an ease to it, though at times Permission can feel too metronomic..."

"...her most personal and beautiful work yet..."

"The overall effect is of being in the unpleasantly insistent confidences of someone who, erroneously, fancies himself a tremendously slick yarn-spinner...."

"Despite the novel’s wit and sharpness, there is a fundamentally serious point to it, and not just about body dysmorphia and unrealistic expectations..."

"a variety of authors have created marvellous and menacing new monsters..."

"This is a spectacular debut...."

"stories of financial misfortune and emotional misunderstandings..."

"Gripping, twisty and immensely satisfying, this confirms Blok’s talent...."

"A surprising, gripping experiment that works..."

"wonderful twists and turns which single out Upson as a talented author of historical crime..."

"This is up there with the best contemporary Christmas novels ..."