Masterly storytelling.

A masterpiece . . . fiction of the highest order

A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians. Constantly surprising and formally superb

One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction

One of the most distinguished works of contemporary fiction

Franck skilfully contrasts the romantic language of the children’s fantasies with the bitter reality of emotional neglect

Engaging and shocking

A novel that, with its hypnotic language, creates its own realm of relevance... You dive back into the real world in shock

The density of tone is true to the novel’s vision of life as a claustrophobic nightmare

A harrowing and often difficult read, you will not be able to put this book down

A haunting examination of the far-reaching consequences society can have on relationships

A work of artistic courage, chilling comedy and incontestable moral seriousness.

Brave and ambitious.

Amis’s staggering linguistic gifts return in full force… The book takes up right up against the limits of language.

Martin Amis isn’t new to the business of turning the horrors of history into fiction, but he has never done so more thoughtfully than in this disquieting novel.

A difficult, troubling read, and easily Amis’ most successful new release for a decade.

Strange and haunting.

Arguably his best…. A must-read

Stunningly simple and profound.

The strength of this masterly novel is that it illuminates without pretending to explicate.

It’s signature Amis at his most inventive, and it is through…inspired and irreverent fluency that his dead-serious purpose is realized.

Most fiction would break under the weight of so much self-reflection, but The Zone of Interest does not even bend... Deft, ironic and horribly funny... A brilliantly believable account of an episode which is beyond belief.

The Zone of Interest succeeds because in it Amis is seriously funny - that is to say, funny for serious purposes.

Martin Amis’s best novel in years

It’s a brilliant feat of imagination and chutzpah.

Is the Holocaust a fit subject for fiction? … The only proper response is to read this remarkable, deeply disturbing and quite original novel.

Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest achieved the near impossible, confounding his detractors with this horrifying glimpse into the heard of Nazi darkness.

The Zone of Interest is Amis at his boldest and best.

What would be otherwise be light entertainment…becomes sinister and strange, warped by the enormous atrocities happening just offstage.

Martin Amis’s best novel in years.

It is always hard to read factual material about the Holocaust but in fiction Amis has shined a light into this darkness which offers no answers but is still profoundly moving.

It was very, very good.

I think everyone should read it – it is so horrific.

A well-received return to form

Astonishingly bold novel… [It] is Amis’s best work in years

Amis’s best work since Money