A nice, nasty read. I enjoyed it a lot

A fine, gutsy, spare rendering of the drug underworld

A modern evocation of classic fin de siecle literature, complete with classy illustrations ... This love affair between a man, a woman and a needle goes the same tender, heartbreaking way as Hubert Selby Jr.'s Requiem for a Dream. From the warm glow of kindred spirits binding with the chemical mix of love and heroin to the suppurating end, Junkie Love is as beautifully written as it is presented.

During their time in the underworld, he and his girlfriend learnt painful, strange things about addiction and identity, and he enunciates them beautifully in this heavy little book....essential reading for anyone interested in how things go wrong

Redemption Falls is a major work of modern fiction from an astonishingly accomplished writer

Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better

A superb novel... Brilliant work... A lively and exquisitely phrased epic

A huge achievement, as deep as it is wide, this is a book like no other of these times

Redemption Falls is trauma incarnate, but its effect is both compassionate and luminous

Books of this quality demand to be reread to reveal more of their complexities and layers of meaning. Redemption Falls would reward this on the level of its rich textures of language alone

One of the author's most affecting, honest and brilliant works. It is a searingly well written piece by a ridiculously underrated novelist

Entertaining... Jacobson's prose is incisive and off-kilter, abrasive and often hilarious

Felix Quinn, the narrator of the book...explains it beautifully - and this is a very good novel... Feeling unsafe makes him feel alive. And loss, of course, is the wellspring of good storytelling

The Act of Love is an ambitious and at times extremely uncomfortable novel

It is an almost frighteningly brilliant achievement. Why did the Booker judges not recognise it?

This is a very good novel

Jacobson's 10th novel is a moving, thought-provoking and darkly witty story of desire and love

Trollope explores, with infinite delicacy, the strands that make a family

An absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers

Trollope has created a fount of bitchy tension which she manipulates with great skill