A big hitter takes on big ethical issues... Eco sits himself down in the modern marketplace and notices what is really going on

For the sheer depth and clarity of his learning and wisdom, Eco has no living rival

Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our time

Cogently argued and periodically sparkles with the kind of wit and insight that readers have come to expect from one of Italy's brightest minds

Wonderful... A brilliant, daring novel... Every voice amazes

As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear

She may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner

[A] masterpiece... She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison

A masterpiece... A sensuous, haunting story of various kinds of passion... Mesmerizing

Thrillingly written...seductive... Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel

A compelling blend of heart and language... Resounds with passion

She captures that almost indistinguishable mixture of the anxiety and rapture of expectation - that state of desire where sin is just another word for appetite

Lyrically brooding... One accepts the characters of Jazz as generalized figures moving rhythmically in the narrator's mind

She is the best writer in America. Jazz, for sure; but also Mozart

Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious

A tale of love, death, beauty, murder and obsession...told in a free-form syncopated prose so rhythmic that you can almost imagine Nina Simone singing it

Death is an absurd fate, no less harrowing for being inevitable. But the death of a child is the stuff of madness. This is the blow that begins Enon, a beautifully melancholic new novel by Paul Harding…All this sounds heavy-going. Yet Mr Harding ensures that Charlie, despite his sorrow, is still good company. Even as he slides further into despair, his perception warped by grief and drug addiction, Charlie wryly observes his own wretchedness…And there is lightness in this narrative…As with Tinkers, the language of Enon glimmers without feeling precious…Mr Harding captures the poignant aches of parenthood, the way a father may marvel at the sloppy grace of his daughter…And he turns the fictional town of Enon into a vital, storied, memorable place, well worth visiting.

Harding maps his protagonist’s broken inner world in fine, elegiac prose

A bittersweet mixture of bleakness and beauty

Enormous fun… Deserves a place alongside Pynchon’s finest works.

Pynchon’s latest novel is a historical romance set in during the internet’s infancy in the spring of 2001.

Bleeding Edge is a romp. On full display are Pynchon’s trademark linguistic and imaginative acrobatics… It may sound frivolous but an emotional maturity counterpoints the silly songs, deliberately bad puns, and pop-cultural references

When he’s in his hardboiled vein, [Pynchon] writes the most entertaining dialogue in any year.

Pynchon's best novel since Mason & Dixon, an exhilarating shaggy-dog private-detective story that punctured its own garrulous charm with sharp stabs of betrayal and threat. Astonishing, too, that that a 76-year-old should produce a novel with such wild and slangy bounce.

Pynchon at his most hilarious, it gave way to more sombre realities involving a suspicious Silicon Alley tech company and its possible links to international terrorism and who knows what else.

Suspenseful and darkly humorous.

Intriguing, and probably the most straightforwardly readable of his books.

A thrilling ride through the first tech bubble, filled with "bleeding edge" technology... Accomplished, funny and digressive.

Pynchon's take on the attack on the Twin Towers. Will he reject the conspiracy theories of the "truthers" or spin some new conspiracies of his own? I think the answer is both. But I wouldn't swear to it.

· Pynchon delivered a piece of typically raggedy brilliance with Bleeding Edge.

Engrossing, hilarious and shocking.

Pynchon’s high-energy writing crackles with dark wit and foreboding

Playful and paranoid New York noir

Readers will have to decide for themselves how they feel about an open-ended mystery, but for those who don’t care so much about the destination, the journey is more than worth it