How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.

All of Brookner's novels are great, but this is one of the best . . . Brookner, though acclaimed, deserves more excitement, more rapture from us. Hotel du Lac and the Booker Prize were a long time ago, and it's not her fault if she has bloomed equally brightly every year without fail. I think we're taking her for granted if we don't jump up and celebrate this book right now

Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding.

A national hero.

Brave and passionate.

A beautifully constructed fugue on desire and its denial

This is the best novel I have read this year or expect to read for several more... Wanting shakes us rudely from our stupors, wakes us up to history. There can be no author more passionate or unfettered than Flanagan

A summary does little justice to the complexities and nuances of this dense and fascinating novel... There are moments of great power and lyricism in Wanting, not only in wild Tasmania but also in noisome London... The novel illustrates once again - with terrific brio and aplomb - how fictionalizing history and real people can pay great dividends

Light, mercurial... A novel of singular beauty and so vivid a grace it inspires strange elation as well as pity for the lost

Flanagan is a beautiful writer and Wanting is a beautiful and considered addition to his oeuvre

A thought-provoking, emotional drama.

I’m a massive Dorothy Koomson fan, so I’ll be taking When I Was Invisible on holiday

Cancel the excursion to the ancient ruins and get poolside for this compelling story of love and forgiveness.

A hard-hitting tale

Great heart

Raw and emotional, this packs a punch

Koomson just gets better and better

Tense and emotional with truly empathetic characters

A powerful story about friendship and forgiveness, fans of Dorothy Koomson’s novels will enjoy the clever twists and unexpected turns, which keep the reader enthralled

A powerful book … it’s always good to be thinking of a book long after you put it down

A beautiful and clever novel

A meditative cowboy yarn with a putative ecological message, it could not be more different from Williams’s [Stoner]; it is just as good

It is a sort of Dances with Buffaloes, and one of the most tense, gripping, tragic novels I have ever read

Stoner...is a fine book but his western novel Butcher's Crossing is even better... Visceral, violent and chilling.

A novel that turns upside down the expectations of the genre—and goes to war with a century of American triumphalism, a century of regeneration through violence, a century of senseless slaughter.