Nemirovsky not only unravels the machinations of a revolutionary mind, but rewrites historical events - the novel is based on a real assassination. Like Sartre and Camus, Nemirovsky paints a fictional picture that resonates deep in the contemporary mind, ensuring that terrorism is something more than just a moral and philosophical question

Irène Némirovsky is a novelist of the very first order

Pacy, racy and enormous fun!

A right corker! Very much in the Jilly Cooper vein... fast, sexy, fun, and we think you'll love it - a lot

I read Country Pursuits in one sitting - it was a real hoot and unputdownable!

We love a steamy read we do, especially when it's set in the country. Scandal-a-plenty. Kind of like Emmerdale but with sex, champagne and hot men

As sinfully English as a hot buttered crumpet!

A fantastic read! I couldn't put it down from beginning to end!

Lose yourself in a good old bonk-buster... there's something for all tastes

You just know it's going to be a tongue-in-cheek masterpiece... high class romping and underhanded business. Think Desperate Housewives meets posh totty

Jo Carnegie... will make even the rudest of readers blush with her saucy bonkbuster of a debut novel

This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult... compelling... essential reading

Wonderful... like A.S.Byatt, whose brilliant novel Possession also split the narrative between time periods, Ebershoff uses a series of fictionalized documents to add depth and perspective to his tale... thought-provoking

Fascinating... demonstrates abundant virtuosity, as he convincingly inhabits the voices of both a nineteenth-century Mormon and a contemporary gay youth excommunicated from the church, while also managing to say something about the mysterious power of faith

Both strands of the novel come together to form a fascinating overview of "Mormondom". The day-to-day realities of polygamy are brought home in the small domestic detail

Weaves a surprising amount of information into the dual narratives... [teaches] about Mormonism and the cancer of polygamy at its heart...well crafted to maintain suspense... at its best when he describes the Utah desert and mountains, where he finds brutality, violence and bucolic beauty

A great, compulsive read... the combination of faith, murder, sex, salvation and ultimately, love, is a heady mix

Although disturbing and heart-wrenching in parts, this book is an informative, and engaging whodunnit thriller

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

The greatest comic writer ever

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sublime comic genius

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sublime comic genius

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in