Full of the wittiest and most profound writing by one of the most accomplished authors in the UK.

Magnificent. A wonderful and highly distinctive book

Kennedy has an exceptional gift for empathy and insight

Completely wonderful. Grimly funny, wonderfully wise and ravishingly written

An insightful human story, beautifully written and translated

Descriptions of Iceland's stunning crystalline landscape are lyrical and the overall storyline thoughtful and original

Indridason's best novel so far

Indridason has a remarkable understanding of grief and its persistence... Indridason combines psychological acuteness with great stylistic economy and a pleasing pace

A personal odyssey, suffused with a melancholy that, like the icy chill, seeps into the bones

This Icelandic novelist keeps on getting better

Our love affair with Scandinavian crime continues with the latest instalment of Indridason's award-winning Icelandic murder mystery series

Arnaldur Indridason has built an international reputation with this series, and rightly so. Hypothermia is perhaps his best book yet, gracefully depicting the lengths to which people are driven by the need for answers. An outstanding novel

The Icelandic master of crime Arnaldur Indridason is not yet as well known in this country as Sweden's Henning Mankell, but on this showing, it is only a matter of time...a wonderfully atmospheric tale

This is a humane, unsentimental study of grief and guilt, which is both moving and unsettling. It's also a softly gripping narrative, without ever resorting to fight scenes, car chases or torture

Margaret Atwood is a wry and perceptive observer of society as well as an original storyteller

Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit and astute perception

This is a novel pervaded by violence, sex, terror, but also by contemplation, analysis and – occasionally – by hope… Atwood shockingly reveals what we could be capable of.

A magnificent achievement...an American masterpiece

A triumph

She melds horror and beauty in a story that will disturb the mind forever

Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature

A work of genuine force. . .Beautifully written

There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you

Superb...A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history...Exquisitely told