Mistress of the dark side of upper-class mores

Spare, well-crafted prose and a mixture of racy gentility, humour and unconventionality

Like a noxious Doug Coupland, Palahiuk charts new-felt and totally contemporary categories of despair

An immensely skillful writer

Short, sharp and savage, this haunting and strikingly original American urban nightmare is the most impressive US fiction début I can remember in years

Another great exhilaration from Eco. Eye-poppingly fascinating

Perhaps the most intellectual novelist in Europe today. A highly idiosyncratic by engrossing novel

Profound and moving. A wonderful entertainer

Engaging

The opening is delightful, the sort of stuff that has readers rubbing their hands in anticipation...it is good to see Eco recapture something of his former glories, bouncing ideas of his readers with characteristic zest

Stimulating