Charlie Johnson in the Flames is that good, belonging to the same order of thrillers by writers like Graham Greene, Len Deighton and Lionel Davidson

A painfully believable novel about the human cost of war in the Balkans

Michael Ignatieff's cast of characters... are drawn to perfection

Michael Ignatieff's third novel has a compressed, cinematic brilliance. You can read it in two hours, but the images it contains linger far longer than that...The texture of the novel marks this down as superior fiction

The quality of Coetzee's writing lies in his inner vision: dark, passionately compassionate, concerned with the nature of man

'Masterful...the sheer weight of events carries you on...a cheerful whodunnit'

'An auspicious fiction début...engaging and enjoyable'

'A delicious tale of crime'

Full of Chippendale-style hidden compartments...her narrative is absolutely enchanting'

'An emotionally-wrought novel, in turn lyrical and violent, fable-like and gutsy, in which many of its characters are on a quest to find out who they really are'

'A claustrophobically tense novel, Wide Eyed combines Nicoll's profound love of the Scottish landscape and its people with a journalist's eye for topicality...a writer who intends to become as prominent a part of the literary landscape as the cliffs and mountains from which he draws his inspiration'