The essays here are welcoming, informative, readable, lucid, plain, purged of jargon... Coetzee is a critic of unbiddable integrity

Literary criticism of the highest order...will be read and valued by anyone interested in the inner workings of literature for decades to come

Fascinating...an impeccable stylist

Fans will relish his precise, restrained style of literary criticism...communicating Coetzee's passion for literature

Coetzee the critic is every bit as good as Coetzee the novelist.

This is exemplary writing - balanced, clear, direct and profound.

Coetzee writes well about the technicalities of literature: like an engineer he dismantles the texts and suggests ways in which they might run more efficiently

A fascinating insight into the way Coetzee's mind works in this collection of his essays

Each essay offers a masterclass in concision, clarity and critical sharpness...he achieves the remarkable feat of being thoroughly informative without ever appearing donnish

These are excellent short works of criticism

I ADORED it. It's the most fun I've had with a book in a long time, and I love how she writes - so many dazzling sentences and phrases.

Sparkling savage and remarkably sexy.

A wickedly funny, biting satire of Notting Hill's basement-digging class. My absolute guiltiest read this summer.

The Jane Austen of W11

An addictively funny read about the lives of the rich and richer. Four stars

Smart, pacy, and hysterically funny

This provocative debut explores whether monogamy is all it’s cracked up to be

Witty, sparkling and a dissection of monogamy and happiness... Entertaining

Here is a heroine who scores a solid ten on the sass-o-meter, and she made the whole reading experience a hoot… Guilt-free fun with this deliciously rampant romp.