Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes... which meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century

Burgess is the great postmodern storehouse of British writing-an important experimentalist; an encyclopaedic amasser, but also a maker of form; a playful comic, with a dark gloom

Enormous imagination and vitality - a huge book in every way

A hellfire tract thrown down by a novelist at the peak of his powers

In all ways, a remarkable book

Wildly funny-a masterpiece

Burgess's ambitious study of 20th-century history centers on the stormy relationship between an effete, popular novelist and a Faustian priest

It is glitzy, glamorous, page-turning stuff with bite

Chilling...will keep you guessing until the end

Chilling psychological thriller... Fact and fiction are cleverly blurred, and the intricately plotted spins and turns will keep you guessing till the end

Intriguing... Real life tangles with his fantasy online world to create a heart-stopping page-turner

Blueeyedboy is unquestionably a masterpiece of deception and fantasy

A dark exploration into the mind of an internet-obsessed would-be killer

Creepy psychodrama...BB's voice soon takes on the seductive cadences of her Gallic creations. Harris's triumph is to incorporate email-speak into this tale of rural nasties without frightening the horses