When The Lightning Keeper releases you from obsessively turning its pages, you'll know that you have read an unforgettable account of lives and experience unique to this country. This is a great novel.

A subtle and moving novel, an old-fashioned narrative that addresses modern questions of ethnicity and belonging.

Breathtaking ... His knowledge is woven seamlessly into his story ... An ambitious, wonderful book ... It draws us in and allows us to live briefly, magically, marvelously in the world as it once was.

The Lightning Keeper is a big, old-fashioned panoramic feast of a novel ... A marvelous story.

This is a beautifully crafted book - at once a gripping adventure story and a compelling portrayal of human emotion at its bravest and its most vulnerable

The Colour is the produce of a large and generous talent, generous in its giving of enjoyment

An engrossing novel, an adventure story with a sensitive side

The Colour is a measured book, a diligent, painstaking book

She is a magical storyteller - it is as an artist that she excels

Brilliantly detailed and textured

Tremain is the finest of historical fiction writers

It's uncommonly well written, with a bountiful supply of manic energy... Would Paul Auster kill to write a book as playful, fast-paced and unashamedly populist as this? Doubtful, but somewhere there's a "Paul Auster" who might

Sparky debut

Benedictus takes us on a trail of the contentious highs and lows of the rich and famous in a mixture of dark humour and sharp dialogue. For Benedictus, and his valiant debut novel, more of the same please

The story of the ultimate celeb after-party, it's a knowing wink at publishing and celebrity culture - a high-concept first novel sitting just the right side of salacious

The Afterparty avoids smugness partly because it has more affection that vitriol for the culture that it mocks... It's very funny, but sad, too... Well-drawn characters, smart dialogue and a canny plot