Praise for Trainspotting: The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the bible

Praise for Filth: A snarling epic...ugly, devastatingly funny, unremittingly nasty and pulls no punches... Don't dare miss it

Praise for Marabou Stork Nightmares: Mind-bendingly good

Praise for Ecstasy: Spiky, trashy and brutal… Brilliant, hilarious and infused with a kind of punkish morality

'Many respectable judges would put Edric in the top ten of British novelists currently at work . . . as a writer, he specialises in the delicate hint and the game not given away'

'It will be surprising if this year sees a more disturbing or haunting novel'

'Stunning . . . evocatively brings to life the stifling humidity and constant rainfall of the Congo'

'A really brilliant first novel, he is obviously a major talent'

'The match of the madder moments of John Irving or Tom Sharpe...this is a promisingly entertaining "lite" read'

'At its best when taking pot-shots at a wide variety of modern ills - fast food, tabloid media, downsizing, soap-opera politics...One of Morgan's nicer inventions is a computer program that boils down complex texts to their essentials. Its treatment of the Old Testament renders it down to: "Because I say so, that's why"'

'Suspenseful, atmospheric and highly intelligent, Jody Shields focuses a brilliant light on the murky world of imperial Vienna'