Immensely readable

Not only a brilliant fluent storyteller but also an ironic commentator on the world scene

There is little that Shute does not know about choosing an appealing story and telling it in a gripping way

Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child

With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist

A novel that follows the trajectory of a drug trip: luminous, hallucinatory and utterly illogical. There is unlikely to be a more original, or hysterically imagined, book published this year

A high adventure with any twists and turns

An entertaining book full of boyhood adventures, heroes and excitement

Jonathan is already building up a strong fan base among young lovers of fantasy fiction and his latest novel will certainly not disappoint his young readers

While it is a totally new direction and a different type of tale to what pulls you right in, proving that the cream will always rise to the top

This latest novel will certainly not disappoint his young readers

This is an entertaining book full of boyhood adventures, heroes and excitement

An author who can rightly be dubbed a master storyteller . . . Heroes Of The Valley is . . . epic, vibrant and colourful

It is every inch the assured and stunning debut that everyone suggests

Wyld is a languorous writer with great skill in characterisation...will delight

This is a young writer with talent to burn

Told with quiet, characterful poise, the noel succeeds in evoking not only Australia's epic geographical landscape, but its literary terrain too summoning echoes of some of that country's finest writers,

This is a highly accomplished first novel. Evie Wyld is not a show off writer. She has a clean, clear prose style which is exactly right in the service if her story, and the best ear for dialogue in a long time.

Wyld's debut novel dissects the misery that seeps inexorably from one generation to the next

Wyld can write very well, in a vivid descriptive style reminiscent of Tim Winton's.

Wyld's superb skills at portraying a hot, dusty landscape and her psychological insight will pull you inexorably in.

Superb assured first novel about fathers and sons. Pitch-perfect prose

A very impressive first novel. Wise and wry, it uses its Australian bush setting to great effect, Wyld's protagonists fleeing there from wars, both literal and familial. She writes great characters and makes you love them as she nails them.

This is a sad yet beautiful story of fathers and sons, their wars and the things they will never know about each other