Martin Amis's America is funny and horrific

Perceptive, witty and felicitously written... A terrific book

He writes brilliantly on novels and novelists. He has a laser-keen eye and an enviable descriptive power, using words with great originality and precision

As a foreign journalist-cum-essayist on America, Mr Amis has no equal

Jilly has given more pleasure to more girls and women than anyone else alive today... [with her] familiar warmth and irrepressible humour.

Classic Cooper: either the perfect beach read or else something to curl up on the sofa with to keep out the encroaching autumn chill.

'Tinkers is not just a novel - though it is a brilliant novel. It's an instruction manual on how to look at nearly everything...Read this book and marvel.'

'Tinkers is a remarkable piece of work.'

Landscape is evoked by Harding in fine poetic sentences...Different voices from the past speak to each other and create an intricate patchwork quilt of memories...Through memory, time can become curiously compressed or drawn out, and one of Harding's achievements is to capture this sense of malleable time...The novel moves towards a silent climax, giving us a strong sense of memory as "atmospheres" that touch all of us.

The arcane-yet-timeless language he uses is so unique that it defies description...A remarkable discovery...Tinkers is so lyrical, so effortlessly, unassumingly musical that it's practically begging to be read out loud. Harding manages to cram more poetry into his most seemingly functional, throwaway sentences than most poets manage in several slim volumes and I, for one, can't wait for the audiobook version of Tinkers to hit the shops...Tinkers consists of key moments in the lives of its protagonists rendered with searing intensity, interspersed with snatches of poetry and extracts from a (fictitious) clockmaker's manual...The resulting heap of broken images is one that TS Elliot would have recognised...A slippery, pleasingly oblique book.

A miniaturised family saga...Harding's writing has many virtues. His descriptions of spring flowers...have something of Thoreau about them. There are echoes, too, of Whitman's celebratory catalogues and of Robert Frost's scrupulously bleak verse narratives. A fine passage about an abandoned house brings its long dead builders with their "catastrophic voices" and its current ruin into the span of a single sentence...A sense of mutability is beautifully realised in the phrase "the iron in my blood was once the blade of a Roman plow".

A dense, short meditation on memory, time and legacies passed on from generation to generation...A collage of fragmented histories across three...Poetic language is the driving force in this story...Harding is particularly strong on the natural world as he picks apart a relationship between father and son; in this oddly uplifting book, the time and space they occupy is merely a small part of a vividly described pastoral landscape in which nature endures where man will not.

Immaculate, clever, clinical and alarmingly precise...The book is packed with the kind of imagery that fuels serious American fiction.

The Lollipop Shoes is a sensory fantasy, Harris writes with an original and satisfying poetic flair.

...the magic still enchants

...a sumptuous treat.

...a sensory fantasy, Harris writes with an original and satisfying poetic flair. Harris is a delicious treat.

This novel has the richness of the best quality dark chocolate.

Sparkling black comedy

Pearson is a hilarious author who captures the guilt and the exhaustion of the working mother's life perfectly

It's the incisive details and Pearson's vivid writing that propel the story

Smart book...great fun

Pearson is insightful, witty and full of fun

Wonderfully warm, witty and intelligent

A Bible for the working woman

Her social observation is unerringly accurate...so beautifully written that it brought tears to my eyes, as well as a wry smile

Pearson...to write a novel...that has already sold a gazillion copies and is going to become a film. Hats off to you, madam!

She will...make you laugh

Pearson...has made it all fresh again

Entertaining, compulsively readable, and brilliantly written

Hilarious and...poignant

This terrific novel is alternately hilarious and sad

It may change your life

Pearson is a very witty and moving writer. Her prose is spare and skilful...waspish truisms and spot-on social observations

Intelligent, witty and of-the-moment, it mixes sassy, brittle perceptions with barefaced sentimentality

Brilliantly captures and defines the mood of the moment...sparkling wit and razor sharp insights

Sharply observed and frequently funny