'An absorbing historical thriller.'

One of the funniest, most stylish and utterly original debuts in years

This is a clever book. Fantastically clever...funny and strangely insightful... A genuinely original book

Dazzling...clever, funny and original

Allusive, barbed, cocky, flamboyant, reckless, obscene and very funny

Adam Thirlwell is a craftsman - a master builder... Hugely entertaining... I have read this book twice. I shall read it again

Thirlwell's debut drips with cool

Politics deserves your immediate attention

This book is a literary sensation... Politics really is the novel of the twenty-first century

A book you immediately want to give to all of your friends...irresisitibly funny and true

A new and great talent