brilliant

This anthology is the next best thing to a comedy cabaret

very funny stuff

Chikwava has created an utterly compelling anti-hero... Mesmerising

A writer to watch. Brian Chikwava's language is lively and witty and it turns the London you know upside down

Page by page, line by line, Brian has created a perfectly original and true narrative voice. ..Full of surprises, delicious little tics, and real fire-in-the-belly creativity ..but importantly, the voice comes off as effortless, and therefore true....it's a major accomplishment

Chikwava's sharp irreverent levity...Harare North's wit and suggestiveness'

a shocking indictment of the way we treat those who come here seeking a better life

Chikwava looks to have few problems hooking the reader

Chikwava gives his anti-hero an unforgettable voice; a fine balance between tragedy and comedy

Chikwava's unreliable narrator is animated with an unforgettable voice in this poetic and tragicomic tale

Hilarious and terrifying

It's a wry delight

This fantastically energetic debut offers a dark, funny vision of the underbelly of London populated by illegal immigrants...Harare North's politics are subversive and cynical and Brian Chikwava's sharp style draws attention to the meanings not just behind the euphemisms that cloak human tragedy under Mugabe's regime but the hypocrisies found in England's capital

Chikwava has a distinctive style, a complex mix of grit and humour with a voice that is persuasive enough to unsettle the reader and force them to uncomfortably inhabit 'the other' and (somewhat guiltily) reassess certain assumptions

The narrator is an astute observer of London immigrant life. Chickwava can be funny as well, finding humour in the worst situations

The comedy ranges from wry to very earthy, while the strikingly poetic use of African-derived imagery gives the novel much more than just a 'generic immigrant' feel... Harare North was a joy to read and comes highly recommenced for all in search of original voices in modern fiction

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

The greatest comic writer ever

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sublime comic genius

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in

He exhausts superlatives

The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare