Delightfully written

This is the most delicious book that you will ever read

A curvaceous little tale of a pair of suitors, Dimitris and Damocles, who vie for the favours of their mutual mistress through the medium of the mezze... Call it culinary onanism for Greek gastronomes. And, incidentally, the recipes are terrific

If you are even just a tiny bit of a gourmand, and have a mischievous streak, surrender yourself to Andreas Staikos' amusing novel... the language is beautiful and lively, the love affair passionate and the recipes appetising

It was bold of Roth to write a novel about being famous...a comic stroll in the hall of mirrors

Fluent, funny

[Roth's] narrative hand is wonderfully sure, his comic timing worthy of the Ritz Brothers... Not since Henry MIller has anyone learned to be as funny and compassionate and brutal and plaintive in the space of a paragraph

Confirms that she's a writer to watch

A delightful tale

This is an assured second novel - and wonderful company for that long-overdue summer trip

Imaginative and transporting, but entirely unfussy and unsentimental, the novel is written with a glint in the eye that gives it that extra bit of wind beneath its wings

Wilson has done his research impeccably and he writes superbly well