Malouf dares a style in which a metaphor clinches a whole personality, while the common act of looking at the light and plants of Australia produces plainly spiritual transformations.

Remembering Babylon is another rare chance to read a work by one of the few contemporary novelists who examines our constantly battered humanity and again and again brings out its lingering beauty

There are passages of aching beauty in Remembering Babylon, and passages of shocking degradation. Mr. Malouf has written a wonderfully wise and moving novel, a novel that turns the history and mythic past of Australia into a dazzling fable of human hope and imperfection

A dazzling novel...The story has moments of such high intensity that they remain scorched in memory. As the story moves forward to its conclusion, we go unwillingly with it, not wanting this book, with the wisdom it contains, to stop speaking to us.

The novel is beautifully written. Malouf's Queensland shimmers.

Love, fear and prejudice are all skilfully anatomised in this compellingly intimate exploration of life in war time Brighton

MacLeod has an engaged delight in the stuff of life

'MacLeod's fictions are evocations of desire and its mysteries . . . [Her] characters are strong, and they are worth listening to

Finely wrought, moving and haunting. What a wonderful novel this is. Bravo Alison MacLeod

A persuasive period setting, an intricate plot, sumptuous prose

An intelligent, perceptive novel by a writer of great descriptive power . . . Like her modernist forebears, MacLeod knows that life and death, the terrible and the mundane always co-exist - her genius lies in illustrating these truths while simultaneously spinning a bona fide pageturner

A bleak and enjoyable account of someone who, perhaps through unacknowledged guilt, finds bitter solace in losing and in driving himself towards extinction.

Just as Doyle’s game of choice, Baccarat, urges him to keep turning over one hand after another, Osborne’s sharp, compelling prose is equally addictive – just one more page, one more page

Osborne shows an impeccable facility for capturing the sweat-soaked suspense of the high-stakes card table

This is a good, fast read about what it is to win, and what it is to lose

This is a thought-provoking and chilling thriller

A pure treat from the cover to the very last page

Mutli-layered and absorbing... Kushner's style is sure and sharp, studded with illuminating images... Kushner has fashioned a story that will linger like a whiff of decadent Colony perfume

Fresh and compelling. Kushner takes us to a place and time we've seldom visited before

A stunner of a novel... A fluid, eye-opening symphony of a book

With its sharp detail and precisely drawn characters, Telex from Cuba offers a compelling look at a paradise corrupted

Telex from Cuba elegantly weaves together a gripping story of individuals and their lives leading up to one of the most notorious revolutions of the twentieth century

A dazzling debut… Wickedly funny.

This dazzling firework of a debut novel is a reminder of how inventive and original historical fiction can be.

Eyre pulls off a notable trick in Viper Wine, not just by reconstructing her chosen period but rendering it permeable to intrusions from other ages… Playful moments…are made all the more striking by being woven unannounced into a meticulously luscious fantasia on a theme of English high life in the 1630s.

The horrors of the beauty industry are taken apart with feline wit and the book will make you purr with pleasure.

The most richly fruited post-modern novel since Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherrys

A bold, impressive debut

As a debut novel, it is truly dazzling and Hermione Eyre has proved herself an author well worth watching out for

Profoundly moving