The second story in particular is probably the best thing Phillips has ever done

Remarkable... every page of Phillips writing is convincing, a frightful part of our collective consciousness

Higher Ground is about the destruction of lives, about damage done in one generation being passed on to another. Phillips' book has an urgency and intensity which demands that you read more... to take account of what the voices he has imagined have to say

Caryl Phillips has proved himself among the best and most productive writers of his generation

The understated relation between the three parts is haunting and the whole is a work of total conviction

'One of the country's most widely read novelists

Jean Plaidy has already established herself among the foremost of current historical novelists

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

'A grand recounting of the second Punic War...Durham's epic is truly a big, magnificent, sprawling story complete with a sizable cast of compelling characters, intricately drawn battle scenes and fluid, graceful prose'