Masterly...Ford knows more and sees deeper

A neglected masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction - the English War and Peace

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them

[Ford] was the only Englishman who stood alongside the great 'moderns' - Joyce, Eliot and Pound

a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance . . . timeless and instantly canon-worthy.

A tale of slavery and mysterious power in this debut novel from one of America's most exciting young writers.

An arresting story of fantastical power in the brutal world of human bondage . . . A transcendent, arresting work from a crucial political and literary artist

Eagerly anticipated . . . The Water Dancer merges historical and fantasy fiction in a slavery story that Oprah Winfrey says is one of the best books she has read in her life.

In prose that sings and imagination that soars, Coates further cements himself as one of this generation's most important writers, tackling one of America's oldest and darkest periods with grace and inventiveness. This is bold, dazzling, and not to be missed

This potent book about America's most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as an important public intellectual and perhaps America's most incisive thinker about race.

Slavery, forgetting and memory are at the heart of Coates's ambitious, compelling first novel...