A perfect holiday read. Its absorbing narrative compels the reader to turn the pages, and yet its descriptive writing often invites re-reading for the sheer pleasure of the prose. Set in five countries (most spectacularly Egypt), and imbued with the spirit of Henry James, this nostalgic chronicle of a loss of innocence still draws reflective thought long after the book's conclusion.

Written with a light, deft touch that belies the emotional punch that it packs.

A ROPE OF SAND is beautifully constructed, delaying its shocks until the last possible moment. Period and place are conveyed with economy and sharpness, and the layering of ambiguities seems worthy not only of Henry James but of Elizabethe Bowen.

Beautiful, intimate.

An ultimately tragic tale of sophomoric lust and snobbery.

You have to read on, and you can't ask for much more than that.

Murray Bail marshals the tensions between his characters and their ideas to great effect

A gratifyingly dry wit pervades this novel of ideas

Truly gripping

Opening with a mysterious yet distressing anecdote about a girl driving dangerously, Peter Ferry's first novel immediately captures the reader's imagination, drawing you into a story filled with humour, tenderness and suspense... The novel is as entertaining as it is intriguing and is not to be missed

A very neat piece of storytelling

A neat piece of storytelling

A lovely and heartbreaking book . . . Julia Glass writes the sort of novels you wish would go on forever; such is your immediate attachment to her impeccably drawn characters . . . [she] offers up intimate examinations of the lives on complex people, recognizable for their insecurities and strengths, failings and successes, humor and sadness, loves and loves lost.

An arresting story that is both thorny and complex ... A wonderful novelist will expose truths that elude us in the everyday. [Glass's] eye in I See You Everywhere takes in blind spots and makes them mesmerizing

Julia Glass is a writer firmly in control

Glass elegantly captures what it means to be an independent and spirited contemporary woman

Beautifully written

It is expertly written in its way, and oddly compelling - like a slushy movie you can't help but respond to

Moving and thoughtful ... Poignant and compelling, this lyrical novel lifts the veil on an internal world of love, rivalry and misunderstanding; an intricate depiction of sibling relationships

A beautifully evocative and intelligent novel

This impassioned tale is a gripping read

Jones is fabulous...offering titbits of danger and discord, yet keeping a cool matter-of-fact tone for the big horrors

Her second novel is a must-read; a devastating, brilliant account of what happens when everything a man believes in...begins to crumble

Full of danger and discord