Sabatini's stories abound with drama and melodrama, action and excitement and brilliant colour, as well as minute period detail. No writer, not Scott, nor Dumas, nor Stevenson, has brought the past to life more vividly or accurately . . . He is to be learned from by any who seek instruction in the craft of writing or the matter of history. This century has seen no greater expert in the two combined.

Mr. Sabatini is both a wonderfully fertile creator of exciting fiction and a stylist of distinction

Mr. Sabatini has stirred the pulses of thousands of readers with his heroic tales. He is a true romancer in love with the drama and colour of the world in which gallant men and beautiful women live finely against a background of history

Plenty of interest for fans of Norse tales, with battles galore and the promise of more to come

A gripping tale of action and treachery which splendidly conjures up the sounds, sights and smells of Dark Age Britain. It creates a believable world of men fighting, feasting and braving the sea, a time when the Christian and Norse gods were very real and very close in the thoughts of mankind. It leaves the reader keen for the sequel

Kristian's first novel is a rip-roaring viking saga...Raven is a complex, engaging hero, trying to carve a path through a world that is satisfyingly confusing while still retaining the bedrock of all good sagas: a woman to fight for, a church treasure and a duplicitous priest. Fine, powerful, thrilling stuff!

corker of a novel...this retro bonkbuster reprises roles for rock-star boyfriends and super-bitches. Let's hope half of it is true

Tease is sensational...and destined to be the book of the beach this summer

Tease is a whirlwind of nipple tassels, glitter and besotted suitors. Oh la la!

It transported me back to the halcyon days, pre-chick lit, when no central character worth her salt bored on about how to get a boyfriend because she already had half a dozen men, plus a girlfriend and, perhaps, a pet priest...No wonder grown women in the audience were whooping approval as Blaize read from her novel with breathy aplomb...

Welsh gives more than a passing nod to Dorian Gray in this latest outing...in a supernatural twist Welsh unleahes his usual irresistible mayhem

This, his eighth work of fiction since Trainspotting, has all the ingredients of his earlier success. I found it funny, dark and readable, showing the author on good form

Irvine Welsh's novel is...a powerful and intelligent fable about human emotions and behaviour

A beautifully controlled novel

There's plenty here to pull you in and, it must be said, I do really like the cover

Stories, generations and nationalities collide in what is an entertaining and superior novel