His intellectual perseverance and artistic integrity... remain impressive to the end

He is sharp when speaking about his own fiction, and the section dealing with The Collector will no doubt be required reading for all students of Fowles

This journal is fascinating, full of stimulating thoughts about aesthetics, national identity and the changing function of literature in post-war Europe

Fans of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman are in for a treat

Fowles is an artist of great imaginative power

These extraordinary diaries... should help bring about his richly deserved resuscitation

This is at once an exciting and an intelligent novel

A colourful story colourfully told

Fondly and delicately pieces back together what the deconstructors put asunder

Displaying a playful exuberance wonderfully at odds with the dry, jargon-strewn tradition of academic criticism, this deft, slender volume analyses how novelists pull rabbits out of hats