A rumbustious memorial to one of the most unignorable literary presences of our time

Dazzling... A brilliant and surprising conclusion to the career of one of the most intelligent and tireless writers of the century

A fine book

Byrne is full of his characteristic wit, gusto and erudition

A complex dark comedy in fluently rhymed verse. Frequently hilarious and always engaging, this final book simultaneously satisfies the differing demands of prose fiction and narrative verse. Composed mostly in the same ottava rima that Byron used for "Don Juan," Byrne shows Burgess in command of his poetic medium. One might expect an author to experience new spiritual insight on his deathbed, but such a technical breakthrough is highly unusual

A hectic and humorous debut

Hectically entertaining

Leveritt is adept at capturing the strange atmosphere of post-war Sarajevo...an ambitious attempt to capture the peculiar flavour of a forgotten country, a forgotten war

Highly involving, deeply humane

An absorbing read

Beautifully crafted

A literary big hitter with a velvet touch

Dark and brilliantly absorbing

The Other Family is highly involving, deeply humane

Trollope is a barometer of modern middle-class mores, with a talent for pin-pointing the burning issues in supposedly ordinary lives

Joanna Trollope has many, enviable skills but perhaps her greatest is for identifying and illuminating the emotional truths of contemporary life

Well drawn and convincing

Trollope explores, with infinite delicacy, the strands that make a family

An absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers

Trollope has created a fount of bitchy tension which she manipulates with great skill