Cathy has done it again … A Match Made in Devon is wonderful, warm, wise and witty and made me cry and laugh. I loved it!

Uplifting, love-filled slice of brilliance *****

Delightful!

Books by Cathy Bramley are brilliantly life affirming

Full of joy and fun

Cathy Bramley serves up the perfect concoction of charm and escapism

I loved this book, and I want Nina to be my new best friend! She is brilliant.

César Aira's body of work is a perfect machine for invention-he writes without necessity or any apparent forebears, always as if for the first time

If there's currently a writer who defies all classification that writer is César Aira. Once you've read Aira, you don't want to stop. Aira is an eccentric, but he's also one of the three or four best Spanish-language writers alive today

Aira's works are like slim cabinets of wonder, full of unlikely juxtapositions. His unpredictability is masterful

Aira's novels display a consistent engagement with the importance of storytelling and the act of writing. The engrossing power of his work comes from how he carries out these feats: with the inexhaustible energy and pleasure of a child chasing after imaginary enemies in the park

To love the novels of Cesar Aira you must have a taste for the absurd, a tolerance for the obscurely philosophical and a willingness to laugh out loud against your better judgment

Aira's charm is subtle, unobtrusive, it doesn't try to seduce with cheap likeability. He takes a leisurely stroll through his scenes. It's as if Machado de Assis got redrafted by Bolaño and edited by Anatole France

César Aira's novels are the narrative equivalent of the Exquisite Corpse, that Surrealist parlor game in which players add to drawings or stories without knowledge of previous or subsequent additions. Wildly heterogeneous elements are thrown together, and the final result never fails to surprise and amuse

In spite of the apparent randomness of his ideas and the pacing of his breaks, surprises, and cuts in time, he inspires a sort of willingness in the reader to be taken aback; any reader-untrusting or submissive-might enjoy them as if they had pressed "shuffle" on their favorite pop band's discography

What's really unique about Aira's output, considering the speed with which he 'flies forward' (seemingly by the seat of his pants), isn't that he produces so much work, or that it's fanciful and odd, but that what he's produced forms a coherent body of work - and one that's consistently enjoyable to read

A manifestly gifted writer

Astonishing-turns Don Quixote into Picasso

The realism of Groff’s stories is matched by her lyricism: botanical details and evocations of weather give her prose an addictive quality

There are panthers, snakes and hurricanes heading in the direction of the angry, lonely characters in Lauren Groff's vivid stories, but the greatest threat comes from their own unwieldy feelings, as doubt, regret and dissatisfaction scupper all notions of emotional security.

Lush, and tinged with paranoia…[Groff] should be better known in Britain.

My god, can Lauren Groff write or what?! ... This short story collection showcases a master craftswoman whose sentences reverberate with depth and power.

[A] strikingly vivid Florida of the mind…an extraordinary trip for the reader.

Groff's writing is clever, caustic yet with a mother's tender sensibility. And such powers of description!... I was blown away!

Superb stories.

Lyrical, lacerating collection.

Groff's writing is superb and she captures her characters eccentricities or their bizarre situations perfectly. There are laugh out loud moments with some parts that were odd and some even creepy. Everyone who will read this collection will definitely get something out of it.

Groff's mastery of language, plot and dialogue are on full display in a set of stories that linger long after you've closed the last page.

[A] masterclass in writing about the edges of everyday life. This collection of short stories that all link to the Sunshine State captures loneliness, alienation, abandonment and inner resourcefulness in the most creative of tales.

Fantastical tales ... You'll be swept up in a wild hurricane of a ride with this lyrical stories of fury and love, loss and hope.

Each story is perfectly formed, exquisite, often troubling but there is something so brilliantly humane about her work.

The five darkly comic stories that comprise The Largesse of the Sea Maiden are befitting final testaments to [Johnson’s] wild originality... His sentences, like his plots, are full of gorgeous little shocks.