Stop what you are doing and start [reading] right now . . . Dean is back. (Or is he?)

Clear your diaries, crime fans, the latest Nicci French is out . . . the seventh in the series, husband-and-wife writing team throw in surprises right up to the last page

A fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way. Ingenious . . . deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)

It's magnificent. I'm agog. Really, I'm several gogs. So smart and scary and sad but true

The Handmaid's Tale for the Gone Girl generation

A stone cold genius

The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale

The Power is a subtly funny, lyrical and utterly subversive vision of an impossible future. As all the best visionaries do, Alderman shines a penetrating and yet merciful light on to our present and the so many cruelties in which we may be complicit

Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything

The Power is a fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way...as a whole the narrative feels ingenious...deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)

A feminist science-fiction story that's about to make waves

If you enjoy Margaret Atwood's dystopian fiction, this strong, substantial novel is for you

Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer

Thought-provoking novel

When we say that The Power is profoundly disturbing and you may well want to argue with it as you read, we mean that in a good way

I loved it; it was visceral, provocative and curiously pertinent . . . The story has stayed with me since

As awesome as it is compulsive

What starts out as a fantasy of female empowerment deepens and darkens into an interrogation of power itself, its uses and abuses and what it does to the people who have it

A raw, gutsy slice of speculative dystopia

Like the best science fiction, this dystopian feminist fantasy holds up a mirror to the here and now

A gripping read and a reminder of the true joy of a truly engaging story

Frenetic sci-fi novel

Naomi's super-charged, subversive novel....forcing you to rethink everything

One of my favourite books of 2016 - clever, harrowing and thought-provoking

Electrifying

It's a feminist dystopian page-turner of a thriller and I'm IN LOVE with it

This year's Baileys winner is simultaneously a high-concept thought experiment and a rollercoaster, action packed read

The Power by Naomi Alderman is the feminist flipside to The Handmaid's Tale, asking what happens when women are suddenly the stronger sex

An enthrallingly told Cassandra-like prophecy from the ever-inventive Naomi Alderman

This book sparks with such electric satire that you should read it wearing insulated gloves

The Power is at once as streamlined as a 90-minute action film and as weirdly resonant as one of Atwood's own early fictions

In this fierce and unsettling novel, the ability to generate a dangerous electrical force from their bodies lets women take control, resulting in a vast, systemic upheaval of gender dynamics across the globe

It's a riveting story, told in fittingly electric language, that explores how power corrupts everyone: those new to it and those resisting its loss'

Mina's insight into the wellsprings of violence is terrifyingly acute and her eye for period detail is unsurpassed. A bravura reimagining of 1950s Glasgow

Mina’s recent novel The Long Drop…is her most interesting work

An atmospheric recreation of a vanished Glasgow…and a compelling exploration of the warped criminal mind. A Mina masterpiece

One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years.

One of the most fiercely intelligent of crime writers