A powerful and mysterious novel - totally gripping

A horrified and darkly comic response to the appeal of totalitarianism, a mixture of Orwellian satire, rural sentimentality and Kafkaesque nightmare...

Intensely original...humour and irony, and the smell of the English earth...Its value as literature becomes increasingly apparent at each re-reading

The Aerodrome has been called the best novel ever written about fascism...captures so well the sinister glamour...as unsettling today as when it appeared more than sixty years ago

The only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas has produced is Rex Warner

Splendid...The Aerodrome preceded Nineteen Eighty-Four by eight years... The Aerodrome is the better book because it reaches out towards the light

Strange, visionary, more hauntingly complex and forgiving than its near-contemporary dystopias, 1984 and Brave New World

I am sure this book will do very well because the theme is so contemporary

I love the novels of Iris Murdoch

Absolutely exquisite

A quietly ambitious book

Despite the halting, low-key narration as Joe and Alice attempt to piece together the terms of their engagement, a simmering tension builds, though Seiffert is admirably less concerned with the revelation of atrocities than in how the soldier, having breached the first commandment, negotiates a return to ordinary life

A beautiful book and it's beautifully written

My favourite book of all time

Morrison's stunning trilogy is an evocation of black life over the past four centuries. It defies summary. Completed almost 25 years ago, these novels top anything produced by any American writer including Hemingway, Updike and DeLillo

[A] beautiful, haunting novel

More than one of Morrison's books could be classed as masterpieces, but this one is famous for a reason: everyone should read it

A magnificent achievement...an American masterpiece

A triumph

She melds horror and beauty in a story that will disturb the mind forever

Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature

A work of genuine force. . .Beautifully written

There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you

Superb. . .A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . .Exquisitely told

This is a wonderful novel about slavery, freedom, parental loss and revenants