Warning: This book is scary. If ghost stories are your thing, you will absolutely love it.

a truly chilling read

a tense mental journey ... Deft and compelling, The Orphan Choir delivers a chilling gut punch

an old-fashioned horror story, given a modern spin by the likeable narrator. It has a creepy cinematic feel and races along to its frightening ending

a very modern sort of ghost story

a chilling ghost story

Prepare to be spooked

Deeply unsettling.

Don't read this after dark!

a tense and thrilling read, employing the fast pace and great character building that we have come to expect from Sophie Hannah. Her fans will not be disappointed.

an enjoyable creepy read with the psychological depth that Sophie Hannah is known for

this bestselling writer knows how to pile on the tension ... and her ending is chillingly, memorably disturbing

Sophie Hannah is a genius at creating and building tension and this book is no different.

a beautifully constructed, atmospheric chiller which I highly recommend

Her trademark precision-layered structure creates a multi-dimensional maze that holds at its centre a revelation which is truly hair-raising

Cool, calculating and utterly chilling… to be gulped down with all the lights on and someone to grab when the sense of menace grows too great.

Sophie Hannah is a real star.

Sophie Hannah has quickly established herself as a doyenne of the 'home horror' school of psychological tension, taking domestic situations and wringing from them dark, gothic thrills.

Hannah is a master of intense psychological thrillers . . . Full of twists and turns, and terrifying, too.

She grips from start to finish - a grip which held me against my will because the sustained atmosphere of mild hysteria is hard to take . . . I couldn't put it down.

Pynchon’s latest novel is a historical romance set in during the internet’s infancy in the spring of 2001.

Bleeding Edge is a romp. On full display are Pynchon’s trademark linguistic and imaginative acrobatics… It may sound frivolous but an emotional maturity counterpoints the silly songs, deliberately bad puns, and pop-cultural references

When he’s in his hardboiled vein, [Pynchon] writes the most entertaining dialogue in any year.

Pynchon's best novel since Mason & Dixon, an exhilarating shaggy-dog private-detective story that punctured its own garrulous charm with sharp stabs of betrayal and threat. Astonishing, too, that that a 76-year-old should produce a novel with such wild and slangy bounce.

Pynchon at his most hilarious, it gave way to more sombre realities involving a suspicious Silicon Alley tech company and its possible links to international terrorism and who knows what else.

Suspenseful and darkly humorous.

Intriguing, and probably the most straightforwardly readable of his books.

A thrilling ride through the first tech bubble, filled with "bleeding edge" technology... Accomplished, funny and digressive.

Pynchon's take on the attack on the Twin Towers. Will he reject the conspiracy theories of the "truthers" or spin some new conspiracies of his own? I think the answer is both. But I wouldn't swear to it.

· Pynchon delivered a piece of typically raggedy brilliance with Bleeding Edge.

Engrossing, hilarious and shocking.

Pynchon’s high-energy writing crackles with dark wit and foreboding

Playful and paranoid New York noir

Readers will have to decide for themselves how they feel about an open-ended mystery, but for those who don’t care so much about the destination, the journey is more than worth it