'The Chains of Albion is a cracking book. Fast-paced, exciting and funny'

'At last, the nautical Flashman! Martin Jerrold looks set to become one of the great British anti-heroes, boozing and lusting his way through Regency England'

'Will fill the gaping hole stoved in the timbers of the sea-saga genre by the sad death of Patrick O'Brian...Jerrold swashes his buckles and splices his mainbraces to good effect'

'Rip-roaring...a rollicking yarn with razor-sharp dialogue, introducing a hilarious protagonist'

Brilliant and funny... No More Mr Nice Guy shows invention on every page, every paragraph. Jacobson is unique

Unabashedly laden with sex and OTT with glitz ... Go on run yourself a bath full of bubbles and indulge in this page-turner

Glam, glitz, gorgeous people... so Jordan!

A page-turner... it is brilliant. Genuinely amusing and readable

A fabulous guilty holiday pleasure

The Death of Lomond Friel is a very fine first novel, full of emotion, laced with wit, and crowded with observations of the surface absurdities and hidden pains of being human. It marks Sue Peebles as an assured and cunning writer

Shot through with a fizzing mix of philosophy and comedy

An unusual, loveable debut...that explores the complexities of family relationships and the weight of memory

An unusual, loveable debut about a father and his daugther on the East Coast of Scotland...superbly written with a small cast of memorable characters

The beautiful debut by Scottish novelist Sue Peebles. This tale of a daughter caring for her father who has suffered a stroke is psychologically true and elegantly portrayed

The best debut I read...sharp, tender, wicked, and beautifully poised prose that reads like the work of an accomplished novelist

As far as literary fiction goes, this is both incredibly literary and amazingly enjoyable… Lyrical, poetic, and always written with the same bittersweet quality which captured my attention right at the start, this is an absolute gem of a book… Clearly, this is about the highest possible recommendation, whether or not you like cricket… When I got to the end, the only issue I had with the book was that I wished it hadn’t finished

There is much to enjoy in Sri Lankan Karunatilaka’s energetic debut novel… The book bristles with grouchy humour, laconic observations on Sri Lanka’s political troubles and the pathos of coming to the end of life. Steering just the right side of sentiment, it is both an elegy to lost ambitions and a paean to madcap dreams

A rollercoaster of a novel

A deliberately rambling account of a dying sportswriter’s attempts to get to the truth of the disappearance of a Sri Lankan bowler... It’s brilliant