'there is the sublime sweep of McCabe's craggy cadences to sustain you, and he takes an ingenious delight in the mechanics of language'.

The scenes Denezhkina paints are vividly hued, juicy and mouthwateringly acid... A promising start... Exhilirating

Irina is the heroine of a generation whose parents were orphaned by Socialism. She has learned a harsh and pitiless version of Capitalism: 'No one owes anybody anything' is the obsessive mantra of her characters

Travel writer, biographer, novelist, essayist... Pritchett looks protean, but really his genius is indivisible. He is a teller of stories

Pacy, pithy and full of wonderful, (often humorous) moments

Spine-chilling twists and turns - Graham Greene eat your heart out

Darien Dogs is a bullishly confident and vivacious collection

Beautifully paced and pitched