Beautiful, dreamlike and oddly beguiling

A charming, sinuous, playful novel...global, universal, in its scope and feeling

Nooteboom writes beautifully. His prose is clean and precise without feeling sparse, and he manages to combine clarity with intense lyricism

A plot as finely tuned as a concert piano...this is a novel which finally soars

Nooteboom has shown himself a master of ironic wisdom, but also of elated, elegiac feeling

Nooteboom's books are tiny bombs capable of exploding in the imagination of any reader open to adventure

Nooteboom is one of the greatest modern novelists

The dense, layered, magical and innovative fictions of Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, who was born in 1933, are always different...superb,elegant and vivid

The Dutch grandmaster at the height of his powers

Cees Nooteboom's new novel is inhabited by angels. Paradise seems to be in Australia, while hell is in São Paulo. Nooteboom has effortlessly reworked his travel stories into a surprising variation on an old theme

A beautifully told, mysterious story

A daring, poetic, provocative, cleansing novel

I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

The greatest comic writer ever

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sublime comic genius