Author:Roberto Saviano,Anne Milano Appel

From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold, where organized crime ravages both north and south - yet also where many courageous individuals defy the system, and millions work tirelessly for a better future.
'Saviano is a blazingly vivid and courageous writer' Independent
'A national hero' Umberto Eco
'Saviano has an astonishing ability to write luminously yet subtly about terrible things' Le Parisien
'Brave and passionate' Guardian
'One of the world's finest investigative journalists' GQ
A symbol of the writer as crusader; brave, unyielding, shining a light into some of the world's darkest corners.
—— Josh Glancy , The TimesAfter reading Saviano, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again.
—— The New York TimesSaviano is a blazingly vivid and courageous writer.
—— IndependentA national hero.
—— Umberto EcoBrave and passionate.
—— GuardianA beautifully constructed fugue on desire and its denial
—— Times Literary SupplementThis is the best novel I have read this year or expect to read for several more... Wanting shakes us rudely from our stupors, wakes us up to history. There can be no author more passionate or unfettered than Flanagan
—— Sydney Morning HeraldA summary does little justice to the complexities and nuances of this dense and fascinating novel... There are moments of great power and lyricism in Wanting, not only in wild Tasmania but also in noisome London... The novel illustrates once again - with terrific brio and aplomb - how fictionalizing history and real people can pay great dividends
—— William Boyd , ScotsmanLight, mercurial... A novel of singular beauty and so vivid a grace it inspires strange elation as well as pity for the lost
—— Irish TimesFlanagan is a beautiful writer and Wanting is a beautiful and considered addition to his oeuvre
—— The AgeA thought-provoking, emotional drama.
—— Sunday PostI’m a massive Dorothy Koomson fan, so I’ll be taking When I Was Invisible on holiday
—— Katie Fforde , Daily Mail, Summer ReadsCancel the excursion to the ancient ruins and get poolside for this compelling story of love and forgiveness.
—— Sainsbury’s MagazineA hard-hitting tale
—— SunGreat heart
—— The HeraldRaw and emotional, this packs a punch
—— FabulousKoomson just gets better and better
—— Woman & HomeTense and emotional with truly empathetic characters
—— My WeeklyA powerful story about friendship and forgiveness, fans of Dorothy Koomson’s novels will enjoy the clever twists and unexpected turns, which keep the reader enthralled
—— CandisA powerful book … it’s always good to be thinking of a book long after you put it down
—— Woman’s Way (Ireland)A beautiful and clever novel
—— The Culture TripA meditative cowboy yarn with a putative ecological message, it could not be more different from Williams’s [Stoner]; it is just as good
—— David Evans, 5 stars , Independent On SundayIt is a sort of Dances with Buffaloes, and one of the most tense, gripping, tragic novels I have ever read
—— Giles Coren , The TimesStoner...is a fine book but his western novel Butcher's Crossing is even better... Visceral, violent and chilling.
—— Barbara Taylor Bradford , Daily MirrorA novel that turns upside down the expectations of the genre—and goes to war with a century of American triumphalism, a century of regeneration through violence, a century of senseless slaughter.
—— John Plotz , Guardian






