Well-written, amusing and Colgan perfectly captures Matt Smith's on-screen delivery in the dialogue

A terrific tale with some surprising twists and turns – more please! 8/10

A great story, told with flair and action to keep the fans glued to the pages

A page turner for the fans and perhaps for more casual viewers of the series, although Dark Horizons may not come to be known as a Doctor Who classic, it's an entertaining adventure for Matt Smith's Doctor.

A pitch-perfect take on the eleventh Doctor, packed with mystery and action.

Undeniably, distinctively identifiable, vintage Martin

The novel has a cumulative power and resonates with many reflections about the course of individual destiny in a profoundly cruel universe

This is Amis writing at the pitch he has reached in Money...remarkable

A compelling work of fiction in which learning and imagination are beautifully counterpoised

Savage, hilarious, uncannily moving, and true. It's the first novel I've read that burns with all the madness, sadness and refracted terror of right now, and everyone should read it. Right now

This is a book which does more than just take you on a journey through the last twenty years. It also has a lot to say about family eccentricities, about childhood and adulthood and the difficulties faced in trying to be either, given the times we live alongside

The book is magnificent, understated, full of gentle mind grenades

Funny and rich and dirty and taut and original. I wanted it to be my biography, but there was way more warmth and invention in it than you could fit in a lifetime

Funny, sad, bewildering and painfully honest, it’s a must-read for all fans of Joe Dunthorne’s Submarine

Funny and true

What a beautifully written first novel. Joe Stretch has a way with words that is intensely captivating… Superb on adolescence, the Nineties, and more

A consistently amusing hymn to unfulfilled potential which grows more involving and poignant as it goes on

Jim is such a likeable character, unflinchingly recounting in all his worst failures and humiliations

A funny, wryly observed coming-of-age novel, it will strike a chord with anyone who grew up during the Noughties. It’s full of quirky period details and Jim is an engaging narrator