The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings

The power and energy of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, and ideal communism even more Christian than Communism. Its unit is the individual, not any class

No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene

Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature

The Power Tnd The Glory's nameless whisky priest blends seamlessly with his tropical, crooked, anticlerical Mexico. Roman Catholicism is intrinsic to the character and terrain both; Greene's imaginative immersion in both is triumphant

Beautiful prose…melded with page-turning suspense… I defy anyone to read it without weeping

This is Greene at his raw and powerful best

Graham Greene's masterpiece... The power and energy of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, and ideal communism even more Christian than Communism. Its unit is the individual, not any class

So sexy it makes Twilight look anaemic

A starry-eyed, sweetly comic story about the humanising power of love, for this is Romeo and Juliet...with zombies

Wonderfully original

One of the most imaginative love stories we've read in years - we absolutely loved it!

The problems of Isaac Marion's star-crossed lovers make the Montague-Capulet relationship seem easy. When your new suitor ate your old boyfriend's brain, trust issues are unavoidable... Has there been a more sympathetic monster since Frankenstein's?

Elegantly written, funny, self-aware

Beautifully written and wonderfully evocative

You'll love this book… A haunting love story that brings hope humanity can survive just about anything – even death

This superb novel goes by in a heartbeat, so smooth and engrossing is David Malouf's prose...It is a touching tale, full of pain, but rendered beautifully by Malouf's humanity

An audacious reworking of Homer's Iliad.

David Malouf...has given Homer's epic fresh life in this haunting mood piece...a graceful, eloquent text dominated by rage and sorrow

This novel explores the timeless motifs of epic, in miniature

You know it ends in death, and so do Malouf's haunted protagonists, but this telling, at once unfussy and wonderfully poetic, breathes warm life into a great epic

Breathtaking skill...an extraordinary emotional charge.

A finely honed, writerly and wise revisiting of one of the most famous episodes in The Iliad, when Priam the King of Troy goes to bring home the body of his dead son Hector. No-one in prose has managed to better Malouf's imaginative recreation of the Homeric world.

a potent new yarn... Beautifully written in simple language freighted with meaning, Ransom explores a king's impulse to act as a mourning father.