Fowles's mind is as lively, tangy and quirkily textured as Stilton

A splendidly uplifting book

Anyone familiar with books such as The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus will already know that Fowles is a perceptive and intelligent writer, but this collection shows him to be as fascinating and entertaining in his non-fiction as he is in his novels. Indeed, Wormholes is something of an embarassment of riches, there are so many marvellous things in here

John Fowles is a magnificent novelist who has written two masterpieces but who has a reluctance to give precise endings to his stories... In the wise and beautifully written essays and biographical pieces of Wormholes he indicates why this is so

Highly readable, sensitive and intensely moving ... a fine achievement

To speak of the novels of José Saramago is to speak of the sheer pleasure of reading