Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians

She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed

Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday

There are some clever plot twists and fine comedy set pieces.

A comic riot of a novel.

Worst. Person. Ever. succeeds by virtue of its verbal energy, the brio of its invention, the snappiness with which successive gags and ever more appalling atrocities are piled on.

Coupland has penned a bitterly funny tale of our time and created one of the grossest characters to deliver it.

Worst. Person. Ever., challenges the present-day with excess, satire, and biting critique

It's a book of wonderful purple phases...restless, epic, allusive

Praise on Devil on the Cross:
'This novel will be regarded as one of the historic staging posts of African Fiction. Ngugi is the most celebrated of African novelists. What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing.

Praise on Petals of Blood
Ambitious, caustic and impassioned

A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair . . . a bomshell

The definitive African book of the twentieth century.