Full of delights... His view of our neuroses is sane, intelligent and amused

Energetic, comic...a highly ingenious games-board of moves and counter-moves

Lodge remains one of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era; and Therapy is good for you

Takes off on wings of humour and pathos which would not have disgraced Lodge's great hero Dickens... A splendid novel

A real treat...a joy - a sobering joy, but a joy none the less

A puzzle box of a novel as fascinating as the clockwork bees it contains.

Wildly imaginative novel is enough to tie the brain in knots; it's a comedy, a thriller, a crazy fantasy ... Harkaway has created a wonderfully entertaining, unguessable kaleidoscope of a novel.

This brilliant, boundless mad genius of a book runs on its own frenetic energy, and bursts with infinite wit, inventive ambition and damn fine storytelling. You finish reading it in gape-mouthed awe and breathless admiration, having experienced something very special indeed.

Another fizzingly imaginative melodrama…A wildly, irrepressibly exuberant new-weird/ fantasy/ thriller /comedy.

It's an ambitious, crowded, restless caper, cleverly told and utterly immune to precis...[Makes] Don Quixote look sedentary ... a very timely novel about belatedness...Joe is in one sense a 21st-century everyman, indebted to a previous generation, disenfranchised by a conspiratorial state... Angelmaker turns out to be a solid work of modern fantasy fiction, coupling credit-crunch anxiety with an understandable nostalgia for the mythical days of "good, wholesome, old-fashioned British crime".

A story of technology and morality. It's a wonderfully strange, rich piece of work - extremely entertaining and exciting - and has a wonderfully comic aspect to it as well.

[a] dazzling story..a witty and wonderfully sprawling fantastical thriller.