Cool, slick and funny ... a delightfully mischievous tweaking of the downbeat, hungover gumshoe. Terrific

A rollicking detective story ... keeps you guessing until the last page

A rare treat in a thriller ... A surprisingly touching book that demands at least one sequel

In getting to the heart of the tensions that run through London's streets, City of Tiny Lights reimagines the modern city afresh

A spry, ambitious thriller

Neate's books have a sparky loquacity that is funny and inventive

This is Victorian melodrama at its richest, darkest and most enticing

This entertaining novel combines melodrama with the unhappiness of life backstage

Takes readers on quite a chase

A searing, heart-breaking, genre-bending crime novel that triumphantly reconfigures the traditional whodunnit into something remarkable

You Don't Know Me is a brave debut by a barrister . . . an impressively original courtroom drama

A startlingly original courtroom drama . . . perfectly executed, gripping the reader from the first sentence with the defendant's unique voice and not letting go until a surprising twist at the end. Mahmood is most definitely one to watch * * * * *

Expertly pulled off. It has a devious premise. DI Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome. It's scary as all hell. And it has a full cast of realistically drawn, interesting characters that make the thing read like a bullet

A fast-paced, twisting police procedural and thriller that's sure to become another bestseller

When we say that The Power is profoundly disturbing and you may well want to argue with it as you read, we mean that in a good way

I loved it; it was visceral, provocative and curiously pertinent . . . The story has stayed with me since

As awesome as it is compulsive

What starts out as a fantasy of female empowerment deepens and darkens into an interrogation of power itself, its uses and abuses and what it does to the people who have it

A raw, gutsy slice of speculative dystopia

Like the best science fiction, this dystopian feminist fantasy holds up a mirror to the here and now

A gripping read and a reminder of the true joy of a truly engaging story

Frenetic sci-fi novel

Naomi's super-charged, subversive novel....forcing you to rethink everything

One of my favourite books of 2016 - clever, harrowing and thought-provoking

Electrifying

It's a feminist dystopian page-turner of a thriller and I'm IN LOVE with it

This year's Baileys winner is simultaneously a high-concept thought experiment and a rollercoaster, action packed read

The Power by Naomi Alderman is the feminist flipside to The Handmaid's Tale, asking what happens when women are suddenly the stronger sex

An enthrallingly told Cassandra-like prophecy from the ever-inventive Naomi Alderman

This book sparks with such electric satire that you should read it wearing insulated gloves

The Power is at once as streamlined as a 90-minute action film and as weirdly resonant as one of Atwood's own early fictions

In this fierce and unsettling novel, the ability to generate a dangerous electrical force from their bodies lets women take control, resulting in a vast, systemic upheaval of gender dynamics across the globe

It's a riveting story, told in fittingly electric language, that explores how power corrupts everyone: those new to it and those resisting its loss'

Mina's insight into the wellsprings of violence is terrifyingly acute and her eye for period detail is unsurpassed. A bravura reimagining of 1950s Glasgow

Mina’s recent novel The Long Drop…is her most interesting work

An atmospheric recreation of a vanished Glasgow…and a compelling exploration of the warped criminal mind. A Mina masterpiece

One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years.

One of the most fiercely intelligent of crime writers