This subtle, beautifully crafted novel tears you apart and puts you together again.

A brilliantly original and perpetually engaging story that will resonate loud and clear with anyone who's ever been knocked sideways by love

Captivating . . . Julie Cohen has a great gift for getting to the heart of her characters and making you care about them.

Every once in a while a book emerges that stops you in your tracks. Where Love Lies is a stunning study of love and life's regrets that will leave you breathless. You have to read this book!

A tender and poignant novel, with characters that come right off the page

A gripping reading experience, where one is compelled to unravel the results. The emotional reality for each character is beautifully drawn; we feel deeply for each of the women caught in this mess. . . Vivid and psychologically convincing . . . a superb choice for summer holidays

There are no heroes or villains here, but complex people making difficult choices in an imperfect world.

I tore through it, found it utterly gripping and loved its hypnotic atmosphere. The beauty and pleasures of the natural world pitted against the unravelling horrors of isolation and insanity worked brilliantly.

A remarkable first novel, I was much impressed by the conviction of the child's eye view, the vivid climate and the power of the narrative.

Our Endless Numbered Days is suspenseful, utterly riveting, and as dark as midnight in the forest.

Excellent...I loved the combination of Peggy/Punzel's absolutely authentic child's precision for detail and her day-to-day matter-of-factness (often very funny) with the strangeness of the world she inhabited...very powerfully imagined... absolutely compelling.

Narrated with warmth and compassion, Our Endless Numbered Days is a haunting and beautiful novel. I loved every page.

Ambitious. Bezmozgis is a fine writer

An impressive novel . . . In unadorned prose, Bezmozgis explores the dynamics of mercy, guilt and repentence

Absolutely gripping. Bezmozgis deftly explores themes of fidelity and morality

The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry ... dramatically changed the shape of Russian poetry. As you read on, the landscape becomes stranger and more unfamiliar, especially as you come to the late twentieth century. Almost 150 pages of post-war poetry, nearly thirty poets, most of them unfamiliar to many English­speaking readers. New names. A new poetic world. Our sense of Russian literature has changed dramatically in recent years

Sumell’s compulsively readable novel in stories introduces a restless underachiever as irresistible as he is detestable, surely one of the most morally, violently, socially complex personalities in recent literature…. Sumell’s debut is humbly macho, provoking outrage, pity, and finally tenderness. Perhaps this is a book readers will hate to love, but only because it feels, like Alby, all too real

There's a special alchemy here that you are going to want to witness...offhand and funny, and then the tender heart emerges from the shadows, so tender, and comes at us with a knife. Every story here is two: one the fun, the other the blade

Focusing on the single reality that human beings die, Sumell wakes up, and boy oh boy is he ever pissed off... Sumell, on Alby's behalf, fights back, and he fights dirty. Using cunning, reckless rage, and bravura comic timing, he kicks death's ass... Bystanders get hurt, the reader got hurt, but at least I was reminded that I was part of this whole shitty deal. You'd like to believe that there are consolations, and there are. Being sentient, for example. Being able to read, for instance. Having read Making Nice

The self-destructive narrator lashes out with reckless intimacy, random violence, and an often hilarious misplaced rage that shoots to wound rather than kill. What saves its victims and the reader is a naked rendering of a heart sorting through its broken pieces to survive. The result is an eloquent empathy, an uplift of hope-filled grace

Making Nice will grab you by the throat, raise your blood pressure, and cause you to chortle in a crowd. It will also break your heart. When they're writing the history of the best characters of our time, Alby will be there, telling the others to get in line

Making Nice is a little bit special. A truly original portrayal of grief

Making Nice has an anarchic humour and a goofy, ingenuous humanity that makes every page feel new… Some jokes…aren’t just funny, they are insightful, unexpected and hilarious. In its rampage to nowhere, Making Nice achieves the remarkable feat of making it feel better to travel hopelessly than to arrive.