She was always in the front rank of unpredictable, original, serious writers exploring the deeper themes of ancient as well as contemporary experience

Iris Murdoch really knows how to write - she can tell a story, delineate a character, catch an atmosphere with deadly accuracy

I suspect that when the intellectual map of our own times comes to be sketched out, Iris Murdoch will occupy a position analogous to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky... Murdoch writes better than anyone about the condition of being love: both the ecstatic joys of it and its capacity to turn otherwise decent individuals into monsters of selfishness and cruelty... Her vision of the world is heart-rending, but ultimately celebratory

Mesmerising

Treading a fine line between horror and thriller ... seriously rich yet relentlessly disturbing

Bolton has written a gripping thriller that does not disappoint

Wildly entertaining, Ratlines is a superb mystery but in addition, a spotlight on a slice of Irish history largely ignored. This is a complex mystery told in the exceptional style that Stuart Neville has made his own. Jameson and Nazis, Irish rebel songs and Charles Haughey, it's a bold and brilliant blend

A superbly written, supremely intelligent thriller

Absolute blockbuster – and one you won’t want to put down

Sittenfeld's humour and sharp observation deliver a coming-of-age novel you can relate to