I greatly admired Conor O'Callaghan's Nothing on Earth, as fine as it is frightening

An original story, brilliantly told . . . extraordinary, low-key and pitch-perfect

This one will stay with you like your shadow, as hard to shake off and as impossible to pin down.

Strange, beautiful and quietly terrifying

Quite extraordinary . . . like many great works, it could so easily have all gone wrong if it hadn’t been done exactly right. All that can be done is to give it the highest recommendation: read it, and find out for yourself

O’Callaghan’s stylish, dark yarn triumphs through the clarity of his prose and confident handling of ambivalence at its most menacing

Strange and beguiling . . . very well written, conjuring up a weird listless world

[P]owerfully haunting . . . horror of the most resonant kind . . . Nothing on Earth is less than two hundred pages long, yet its implications and reverberations carry more weight than many novels three times its length.

Hauntingly beautiful

Beautifully written and carefully crafted

. . . extremely self-assured . . . a haunting debut with subtle horror tones . . . backed by O’Callaghan’s remarkable writing prowess

A very contemporary slice of gothic

A stunning, haunting, thrilling and unsettling story

A total curveball, Conor O’Callaghan’s book is extraordinary

Ominous and fearful . . . this striking debut is a psychological chiller that cleverly resonates with modern concerns

Utterly compelling

[A] subtly chilling story. . . leaves the reader with an uncomfortable sense of trepidation

Brilliant and disturbing...The challenge of making Irish Gothic contemporary has just been met superbly

A 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

A powerful book … it’s always good to be thinking of a book long after you put it down

A beautiful and clever novel

Thematically taut and compulsively paced.

A very good novel of anxiety, embarrassment and also, somehow, the depths of Englishness.

Marvellous, original and intelligent. Kunzru writes like a master storyteller... There's simply nothing [he] couldn't manage in prose

Publisher's description. Electrifying, subversive and wildly original, White Tears is a ghost story and a love story, a story about lost innocence and historical guilt. This unmissable novel penetrates the heart of a nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge and exploitation, and holding a mirror up to the true nature of America today.

Compulsively readable, masterly - a tour de force

Riveting from the very first page, I was completely addicted... A literary thriller and a timely, unsparing excavation of the very real spectre of race in America's past and present. White Tears is proof that Kunzru is one of the finest novelists of his generation...

Hari Kunzru is an incredibly versatile writer who is alert to the inequalities in the world... Powerful and complex, White Tears is a novel about abuses of wealth and power. Brilliantly orchestrated, unforgettable and devastating

Hari Kunzru is one of our most important novelists

Kunzru's engagingly wired prose and agile plotting sweep all before them

Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton shouldn't work, but its frail texture was a triumph of tenderness, and sent me back to her excellent Olive Kitteridge

A rich account of a relationship between mother and daughter, the frailty of memory and the power of healing

This physically slight book packs an unexpected emotional punch

A novel offering more hope

My Name Is Lucy Barton intrigues and pierces with its evocative, skin-peeling back remembrances of growing up dirt-poor.

Masterly