With its cool, understated prose and sharp psychological accuracy, this is perfect for a train journey... A reminder of what good writing can achieve in a very few words

A cruel, sophisticated tale making the terrible beautiful without diminishing for one moment the horrors of displacement and war

A genuine artist

This book is a masterpiece

It is quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth... We are lucky to have this book

The greatest comic writer ever.

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny.

Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists.

P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection.

The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon.

Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already.

A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting.

It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him.

Freakishly good... Barrett’s astonishingly mature stories windmill with violent abandon into our time.

How dare a debut writer be this good? Young Skins has all the hallmarks of an instant classic… His vision is sharp, his wit is sly, and the stories in this collection come alive with that ineffable thing – soul.

A triumph.

Barrett’s details shine like diamonds in a coal scuttle.

‘[Barrett] cuts across all kinds of boundaries of class and education to produce immensely tender portraits of living characters.

This is an exceptional debut, and one of the best collection of short stories that I have read in years.

An exciting debut

I don’t think I’ve ever read a better collection by somebody I had never heard of

A technically-assured collection that never disappoints