A tender, powerful and richly embroidered novel from a courageous storyteller.
From Karachi's slums to England's promises, (through connected cities and intersecting destinies), Bhutto's new novel will move you with its profound wisdom and sharp grasp of our turbulent times. Behind The Runaways, there is clearly a brilliant mind and a generous heart at work.

This is a bold and probing novel, from a writer strikingly alert to something small and true

Every page of this is priceless. I can't think of a better guide through the world we live in. I've never used the word "transformative" before, but I just did now.

A powerful and moving book. It is a book that anyone rushing to condemn young people for being radicalised should read.

As compassionate as it is trenchant, this rare fiction is an illuminating guide through the great disorder of our times.

Dazzling . . . a novel that holds up to scrutiny a world of claustrophobic war zones, virulent social media and cities collapsing upon themselves, and then sets it down again, transformed by the grace of storytelling

Bhutto's heady narrative flits through time and space with a sense of urgency, tracing three disparate young lives, each drawn into the realms of radicalisation, amid the dust of the Iraqi desert

The themes of radicalism (of all sorts) is a thread that runs through the lives of the characters representing the complexity of ideology and the perpetual human search for meaning. Eloquent and erudite...a treat to read

The Runaways is a book we should all read for it holds up a clear mirror to the way societies in many parts of the world are shaping, moulding, distorting and deforming the young. It is a book we all need.

A big-hearted, beautiful novel. I read it with awe. Fatima Bhutto has an unflinching eye and a unique voice.

A shocking, moving and deeply compassionate novel

Highly topical . . . The Runaways offers an unflinching look at the key subjects of our time and the riveting story of three memorable characters

An incisive and empathetic study of adolescent alienation and the social conditions that drive radicalisation

An unflinching look at generational ambition and betrayal

A timely read that does a brilliant job of depicting the human cost when violence shifts from abstraction to reality

Provocative and resolutely compassionate

Reliably funny and wise, featuring delightfully eccentric and endearing characters

Arguably his best…. A must-read

Stunningly simple and profound.

The strength of this masterly novel is that it illuminates without pretending to explicate.

It’s signature Amis at his most inventive, and it is through…inspired and irreverent fluency that his dead-serious purpose is realized.

Most fiction would break under the weight of so much self-reflection, but The Zone of Interest does not even bend... Deft, ironic and horribly funny... A brilliantly believable account of an episode which is beyond belief.

The Zone of Interest succeeds because in it Amis is seriously funny - that is to say, funny for serious purposes.

Martin Amis’s best novel in years

It’s a brilliant feat of imagination and chutzpah.

Is the Holocaust a fit subject for fiction? … The only proper response is to read this remarkable, deeply disturbing and quite original novel.

Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest achieved the near impossible, confounding his detractors with this horrifying glimpse into the heard of Nazi darkness.

The Zone of Interest is Amis at his boldest and best.

What would be otherwise be light entertainment…becomes sinister and strange, warped by the enormous atrocities happening just offstage.

Martin Amis’s best novel in years.

It is always hard to read factual material about the Holocaust but in fiction Amis has shined a light into this darkness which offers no answers but is still profoundly moving.

It was very, very good.

I think everyone should read it – it is so horrific.

A well-received return to form

Astonishingly bold novel… [It] is Amis’s best work in years

Amis’s best work since Money