The English novel's only down-to-earth romantic... there is a quality of golden light that hangs over his books. That comes, I think, from his sense of order and from his own vast, undemonstrative solicitude

A first-class storyteller, and his narrative is extraordinarily convincing

Brilliant...an involving meditation on passion, history and architecture

A love letter to Liverpool...ambitiously conceived... He has perfect pitch when it comes to the prose of each period, so much so that when I started the novel, I had the uncanny sense that what I was reading must have been salvaged from the 1940s. Its every line convinces

The story has the resonant simplicity of a poem... The Rescue Man turns the ongoing frenzy of construction and destruction into a quietly powerful metaphor of how we grow up

An excellent debut...a moving and powerfully told story of late coming-of-age and redemptive love

Tells the slowly unfolding story of Baines' journey of self-discovery with great subtlety

Quinn has a cinematic eye for narrative scope... Like all good novels this book tells us something new

An absorbing tribute to the city and its unsung heroes

In a novel of cinematic denouements, Quinn has reclaimed an intriguing chapter of Liverpool's past

A real page-tuner

He [Anthony] hooks you in with his deep, complex characters; he meticulously sets the scene

A constantly engaging and witty novel from a tremendously clever writer.

Plausiby drawn....strong central characters, interesting subplots and well-sketched minor characters.

As idiosyncratic as it is ambitious...given shape and purpose by a true literary craftsman. The book both keeps you reading and makes you think.

I drank in Nigel Farndale's The Blasphemer in huge lungfuls, and mourned it when it was finished. For anyone who loved Saturday, Atonement or Birdsong, this is the generational novel at its best.