A master storyteller

Iggulden is in a class of his own

One of our finest historical novelists

A cast of wonderfully vivid characters ducks and dives its way through London’s beau monde… There is something Evelyn Waugh-like about Eureka, not just it its depictions of the escapades that privilege can afford, but in the ease and seeming effortlessness of Quinn’s prose… Few eras have been as well documented, but Eureka succeeds in bringing it to life in a new and hugely entertaining way.

Anthony Quinn’s growing series of period novels about London life is fast becoming one of contemporary fictions most dependable pleasures… Quinn offers sexual intrigue and a class-crossing mystery plot straddling the glitzy and grimy, all told with a rampantly infectious sense of fun.

Quinn’s immersive approach to his historical fiction means we’re soon woozy with the sounds and sights of that significant year when the Beatles changed music history, homosexuality was decriminalised and cinema was playing with our minds.

Quinn isn’t as big as he should be; with luck, this zesty, punchy, yet also hard-edged black comedy will give him the readership he deserves.

A hugely entertaining read set in London’s Swinging Sixties.

Swinging London and its inhabitants come alive under the expert touch of Anthony Quinn, who always finds the dark heart of the story.

Some of the characters in Anthony Quinn’s novel have appeared in his earlier fiction. They have a richness and depth that come from his long familiarity with them and here they are placed in a tale that brilliantly evokes the febrile world of sixties London.

Immersive and compelling.

This pleasingly melancholic romp gallivants towards a dark mystery.

London is lovingly and precisely rendered… Eureka plays with cinema, literature…art and music, with the newly released Sergeant Pepper echoing through the pages. It fully inhabits its chosen era, steering clear of period cliché while celebrating the touchstones of the decade, from kaftans and kohl to acid and arthouse. Quinn crafts fully realized characters and allows them to enjoy themselves thoroughly, in a highly entertaining novel.

Witty, dark and quite brilliant