'One of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this or any country' Independent

'A storyteller of genius... a man who may yet prove to be the greatest British writer of his age' Mail on Sunday

'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill' Independent on Sunday

'He possesses an amazingly copious and eclectic imagination' Daily Telegraph

'Open up his head and a whole symphony of inventiveness and ideas will fly out' The Times

'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Daily Mail