Every Star Wars fan should own the book

The pacing of the novel is masterful and the authors have managed to combine action, drama and humour wonderfully. The style of writing is so descriptive, so vivid and so alive that you forget that you’re reading printed words on paper thanks to the images that are conjured in your mind. Han’s dialogue is particularly witty, and the writing mimics his tone perfectly.

A highly enjoyable Star Wars tale. 9/10

Some may view this book as a remarkable piece of literary detection, others a dazzlingly written and superbly imagined exposition on how art and writing are gestated and born. Or both.

Astpnishing

It offers a readers experience as immersive as Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, and as visionary in its capacity to connect us with past lives.

A huge and hugely impressive first novel for both fans of immersive reads and of Dickens’ London.

An impressive debut.

In this astounding first novel, Jarvis re-creates, in loving and exhaustive detail, the writing and publication of Charles Dickens’s first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club...it is a staggering accomplishment, a panoramic perspective of nineteenth-century London and its creative class.

A bravura exercise in fictionalized literary criticism.

You’ll be reluctant to leave its rambunctious world of creative intrigue and betrayal.

Original and very enjoyable… The narrative may be complex but the reading experience is leisurely and pleasant.

It’s a great, rich, swarming, seething broth of a story-behind-a story… You don’t need to be a Dickens nerd like me to be captivated by this epic of ambition and skullduggery.

Richly imaginative,… Jarvis’ first novel represents a major achievement.

A book as crowded and rude and brilliantly inventive as the great pre-Dickensian caricatures it celebrates.

Brimming with colourful characters, written with tremendous verve and bursting with information... it exuberantly resurrects an age of transition and enthrallingly depicts the pleasures and pressures of creativity.

A vast, sprawling epic, packed with digression and detail, it is a brilliant achievement for a first-time novelist.

The work of a genius

Engrossing detail… Exuberantly broadens out from indictment to celebration… Teems with vividly idiosyncratic characters…. Burstingly informative and thronged with colorful characters, this panoramic novel about the shady start and sunny breakthrough of a literary phenomenon is a phenomenon itself.