Oh if I could write like that!

One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon

Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful... The experience of reading [the book] becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing

The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of novel-writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping, captivating

There are many who swear the experience has permanently enriched their lives

Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century

Beautifully observed. Makes you laugh on every page

Hilarious. Chortle-out-loud turns of phrase, razor-sharp observations

Fresh, extremely funny

Has she cracked it with her first novel? Yes. Engaging from the first page

Really enjoyable and highly recommended. Dawn French is a wonderful writer - witty, wise and poignant

A hilarious and compelling read

The problems of Isaac Marion's star-crossed lovers make the Montague-Capulet relationship seem easy. When your new suitor ate your old boyfriend's brain, trust issues are unavoidable... Has there been a more sympathetic monster since Frankenstein's?

Elegantly written, funny, self-aware

Beautifully written and wonderfully evocative

You'll love this book… A haunting love story that brings hope humanity can survive just about anything – even death

This superb novel goes by in a heartbeat, so smooth and engrossing is David Malouf's prose...It is a touching tale, full of pain, but rendered beautifully by Malouf's humanity

An audacious reworking of Homer's Iliad.

David Malouf...has given Homer's epic fresh life in this haunting mood piece...a graceful, eloquent text dominated by rage and sorrow

This novel explores the timeless motifs of epic, in miniature

You know it ends in death, and so do Malouf's haunted protagonists, but this telling, at once unfussy and wonderfully poetic, breathes warm life into a great epic

Breathtaking skill...an extraordinary emotional charge.

A finely honed, writerly and wise revisiting of one of the most famous episodes in The Iliad, when Priam the King of Troy goes to bring home the body of his dead son Hector. No-one in prose has managed to better Malouf's imaginative recreation of the Homeric world.

a potent new yarn... Beautifully written in simple language freighted with meaning, Ransom explores a king's impulse to act as a mourning father.