Romance noir, superbly written

A psychological adventure illuminated by a desert sun

Douglas Kennedy is brilliant at getting you to turn the page

Vibrant...an intense, sun-drenched story. The prose veers dizzily between the poetic and the convoluted, spreading a hallucinatory patina of weirdness over everything. This is a writer for whom ordinary language just will not do.

An extraordinary novel, beautifully rich, vividly atmospheric and psychologically complex. Every woman should read it

So mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spell...Sex suffuses the novel, with pleasure frequently crossing into pain

A smart, seductive and utterly beguiling read

Elegant and deeply strange [and] hummingly funny throughout

What makes the book so good is Ms. Levy's great imagination, the poetry of her language [and] moving gracefully among pathos, danger and humor

Gripping... an elegant and eerie tale.

McCarthy’s crisp, clean prose is stimulating, his concepts original and his visual imagery powerful.

[An] entertaining slice of experimental fiction.

Booker-nominated author Tom McCarthy’s latest offering is lean, smart and infuriating.

McCarthy's writing is cool and elegant, descriptive, yet informal and conversational.

An intellectually challenging and highly engaging work of art.

It is dead-clever, very funny, insanely ambitious, sometimes insane, essentially brilliant and commendably engaged with the way we’re living our lives right now.

Reading a McCarthy novel is like being in a McCarthy novel: everything is part of a fizzing network, the scope of which can never be fully apprehended.

Without beginning, middle, end – and especially lacking centre! – the novel comes to a halt, leaving the reader in a gorgeous daze of symbol and cypher, whose meaning is so clear, and yet tantalizingly opaque.

Satin Island is clever, vogue, slick and sleek.

Packed with intriguing and intellectual ideas… refreshingly thought-provoking.

Slender, foxily postmodern.

The bleeding edge of science fiction is Satin Island.

In Satin Island the narrator, U, takes us on a journey through the modern world of ideas, theories and references. It’s a wonderfully intense experience – as soon as I’d finished I wanted to read it again.

Convincing proof that the best writers of our time are anthropologists.

Favourite novel of 2015.

A darkly funny and disturbing meditation on the intricacies and insubstantiality of our technology-ridden times. McCarthy is one of the most daring, most ambitious and most subtle of what at my age I can all the younger generation of writers.

The novel often reads like a dramatic monologue, a very modern stream of consciousness, akin to Joyce’s Finnegans Wake… McCarthy’s novel is innovative, well crafted and challenging… This novel is breaking new ground, a breath of fresh air, at times a tour de force.

McCarthy has put his finger on something, and he’s nailed it very precisely. It’s how we live now. All the information we process every day. What it’s doing to us.