The cheerful poverty of the Cratchit family in A Christmas Carol, is a sure-fire tear-jerker. At one public reading by Dickens in Boston, there were "so many pocket handkerchiefs it looked as if a snowstorm had gotten into the hall"

It has it all: a spooky ghost story, a heartwarming redemption and a great plot with a satisfyingly happy ending

A story which, perhaps more than any other, sums up the spirit of the British Christmas

One of the great achievements of British culture

But that story endures and retains the power to move us because it speaks to the human heart, and gives us hope when hope is fading

A little masterpiece...irresistible

After 150 years still have the power to fascinate readers

Beautifully written and this re-designed cover is stunning

Go on a journey without leaving your chair.

One of the 'classics' of English humorous literature

The Kindly Ones has been hailed as the return of the great European realistic novel.

I dedicated most of the summer to Jonathan Littell's much-praised, internationally bestselling blockbuster and loved almost every minute of it...a magnificent achievement

An immense novel...The depth of detail is astounding and authentic

A masterpiece

An extremely disturbing novel

A remarkable and controversial novel

Jonathan Littell veers between brilliance and bathos...

Grotesque, dismaying, chilling in its focus on the fine detail of barbarism, this epic of evil is also addictively readable

Compelling... utterly engaging... for anyone whose interest in his subjects is great to enough to bear their unflinching portrayal The Kindly Ones is an essential novel

It's an amazing picture of evil, wonderfully written (and very well translated from the original French by Charlotte Mandell), and left me feeling as though I had supped with the damned