'The best fantasy inspires genuine involvement. David Gemmell's novels do just that'

Mercurial, deft and wondrous in its sentences and uncanny descriptions...A considerable achievement by a daring writer who's come fully into her own

Kitty Aldridge's language captures the casual brutality of childhood like a butterfly in a net

[An] excellent pastoral novel

Aldridge herself loads the novel with verbal twists and turns that leave its texture as ridged, layered and undulating as the Chilterns themselves

[The] carefully observed, spirited portraits form much of the considerable charm of this powerful, slow-burning second novel

The narrative, a DeLillo-like, pellet - sized series of vignettes, rings true in its evocation of the paranoid weirdness of office life

A comic and creepy debut novel...Park transforms the banal into the eerie

sketches so expertly; if you like this genre, he gets the tone just right

Park's eye for the minutiae of office life is sharp... This is as funny as Seinfeld

Chilling, compulsive, and hilarious

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

Sublime comic genius

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

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

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

A virtuoso performance...This is a collection of stories that will be re-reading exceptionally well, like an album of brilliant songs you keep wanting to hear again

Funny and furious, Kennedy's tales of floundering marriages and domestic disappointment follow an anarchic path of their own

Kennedy's superlative work always attracts admiration