The ending will shock all Spook’s fans and leave them desperate for the next in this new series

A solid, suspenseful, and spooky adventure with a fiendish cliffhanger

Virginia Woolf was a great writer. Her voice is distinctive; her style is her own; her work is an active influence on other writers and a subtle influence on what we have come to expect from modern literature

[Johnson's] an astute observer of the social nuances of segregated America and Mississippi itself.

Breakout Title: Add Deborah Johnson's addictive The Secret of Magic to your bookshelf.

Written with such charm that it is a beguiling read...A wonderful and clever read. Four stars.

Beguiling... An absorbing, entertaining read: one that will see you nicely through a few long dark evenings

An emotionally powerful, highly charged story... a fascinating story with an intriguing premise

Like eavesdropping on a conversation in a bar...This is a really cleverly structured and well-crafted novel

An intriguing drama and romance

This is a harrowing, but gripping love story

Wonderfully enticing.

Individual scenes are often gripping, shocking or moving.

The bloody horrors of conflict are captured with visceral aplomb in this fine, minimalist novel.

Some of the most vividly evoked battle scenes I've read – he doesn't shy away from taking risks … chilling and touching all at the same time.

Foulds has the literary intelligence to turn the commonplace on its head.

A high-class thriller … Foulds has a literary novelist's feel for [Sicily's] harsh beauty.

Foulds’ prose is superb… It reads like Catch-22 written by Evelyn Waugh.

It’s an ambitious book and the writer relates his story with poetic precision

Told in a language that is both lyrical and stark The Tusk that Did the Damage should win Tania James praise and laurels from those readers who long for a more penetrating look at environmental issues and the moral questions which accompany them’.