A wonderful writer with a merciless eye

Bad couples, sad, sour marriages, young hopes corroded by suburban life... These are bitterly perceptive books

Yates is a truthful and ruthless writer. He intends to spare his readers nothing

Outstanding

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama

One of the country's most widely read novelists

A huge achievement, as deep as it is wide, this is a book like no other of these times

Redemption Falls is trauma incarnate, but its effect is both compassionate and luminous

Books of this quality demand to be reread to reveal more of their complexities and layers of meaning. Redemption Falls would reward this on the level of its rich textures of language alone

One of the author's most affecting, honest and brilliant works. It is a searingly well written piece by a ridiculously underrated novelist

Entertaining... Jacobson's prose is incisive and off-kilter, abrasive and often hilarious

Felix Quinn, the narrator of the book...explains it beautifully - and this is a very good novel... Feeling unsafe makes him feel alive. And loss, of course, is the wellspring of good storytelling

The Act of Love is an ambitious and at times extremely uncomfortable novel

It is an almost frighteningly brilliant achievement. Why did the Booker judges not recognise it?

This is a very good novel

Jacobson's 10th novel is a moving, thought-provoking and darkly witty story of desire and love

Trollope explores, with infinite delicacy, the strands that make a family

An absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers

Trollope has created a fount of bitchy tension which she manipulates with great skill