Vigorous, stunningly funny...whimsical, warm, surreal, grotesque and brilliant

Irvine Welsh is a terrific mimic... This collection of stories is a chorus of voices - rude, rough, discordant, filthy and often very, very funny. It's a pleasure to watch him larking about with the language... Brilliant

This new collection is a rambunctious return to the glory days of Trainspotting... Dazzlingly diverse... Sick and vigorous, written with Welsh's inimitable in-yer-face energy

This smutty, macabre collection exudes a compelling energy

Scary, erotic and extremely funny

Hayles offers a second dose of black humour and testosterone in equal measure...hilarious

Roald Dahl on Ritalin

Hayles turns a wry, detached eye on the superficially reasonable ambitions of those driven insane by modern life...Hayles has a nicely twisted mind

Finely offbeat...original, dark, sick, nasty...and often hilarious

Damned funny. Sharp, punchy, writing, well executed ideas and lashings of irony make for a gripping read

Very good indeed. Flinty, fiery and funny

Poignant and wonderful story...concentrates, without effort, all Malouf's themes...it needs to be read