An addictive read... Loaded is a must for your suitcase

Loaded is a high-octane, drug- and sex-fuelled romp through 24 hours in the life of Ari, a 19-year-old Greek-Australian gay man living on the margins of society. ... there is such a remarkable energy about Ari's narrative in Loaded, and so much self-aware humour and pathos, that it is utterly absorbing, and reminiscent in that respect of such debut novels as Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero or Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. Loaded is a glorious, almighty "fuck you" to Australian society, a primal howl of angst and anguish.

Praise for The Slap: Nothing short of a tour de force. Tsiolkas outs a microscope to family life and presents us with a vision both of unflinching honesty and great tenderness. Here is a novel of immense power and scope, reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Don De Lillo's Underworld

Opening the first page of any Philip Roth is like hearing the ignition on a boiler roar into life

This is a beautifully worked and comic novel by a writer at the height of his powers

One of the most intelligent and energetic of American writers

The finest, boldest and funniest piece of fiction which Philip Roth has yet produced

One of Roth's most unsparing and revealing books - forceful and startling

Scintillating intelligence... [A] brilliant portrayl of life as a legend

A coruscating, kaleidoscopic vision of the 60s, Lazar's Sway is at once an intimate re-imagining of iconic figures and an expansive meditation on an epoch that reverberates to this day. An enthralling read, shot through with flashes of edgy beauty and dark wisdom

Joseph Conrad said that fiction is primarily a visual art; he would have loved Zachary Lazar's Sway for the thousand indelible visual details of a startling originality - and for Lazar's ability to shine a light into the contemporary heart of darkness

A hilarious and compelling read