Appassionata - the divine Jilly Cooper's latest and greatest novel

Triumphant... a boisterous tale of sex and Chopin amongst Rutshire folk

Sexy, dazzling protagonists... the humour comes thick and fast

Delicious: light as a souffle and with divine flashes of wit. I could not put the damned thing down

[A] distinct blend of insight and humour

Star Wars meets the Vampires in Moscow . . . it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its fiendish games

[A] sceptical, intelligent thriller

Fascinating . . . [The] excellent translation by Andrew Bromfield keeps the pace moving . . . One of the most original and readable supernatural fictions in some time

Brace yourself for Harry Potter in Gorky Park . . . The novel contains some captivating scenes and all kinds of marvelous, inventive detail: The vampires' seduction of a teenage boy is bone-chilling; every time Lukyanenko described the Other-worldly Twilight, I felt lured into it; and the fantastical powers exercised by Anton and his colleagues range from delightful to awesome

Lukyanenko is great at rolling out new concepts for the reader to savour

[As] potent as a shot of vodka . . . [A] compelling urban fantasy

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world