This book has what every girl wants in a summer

Science fiction, which once frightened me because it seemed so far-out, now frightens me because it seems so near. The Andromeda Strain is as matter-of-fact as the skull-and-crossbones instructions on a bottle of poison - and just as chillingly effective

Terrifying...One of the most important novels of the year

The best book Hemingway has written

The best fictional report on the Spanish Civil War that we possess

It is the Rock and Roll of novels

Catch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense

Once you "get it" it is a gripping and devastating insight into the pointlessness and bureaucracy of war and its consequences

The most devastating satire ever written about the lunacy of war and military bureaucracy

Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly, savagely funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it

Not only the best novel to come out of the war but the best novel to come out of anywhere in years

The greatest satirical work in the English language since EREHWON

Paris Echo is an enjoyable and highly readable novel. Faulks has an easy-going style and he draws you seemingly without effort into the world he creates. He has a knowing humour too…In part the novel is a love letter to Paris, but it is also the latest product of Faulk’s long-standing and fascinating engagement with the devastating events of the 20th century.

This intelligent, moving, often disturbing novel is also really a love letter to Paris – and, indeed, to France

Faulks excels at creating well-rounded characters.

An intriguing guide to the many layers of Parisien life.

Master storytelling... [An] intriguing and moving story that shows how the future is shaped by the past.

‘Paris Echo is an enjoyable and highly readable novel. Faulks has an easy-going style and he draws you seemingly without effort into the world he creates. He has a knowing humour too…In part the novel is a love letter to Paris, but it is also the latest product of Faulk’s long-standing and fascinating engagement with the devastating events of the 20th century.’

Immersive

A lovely novel by a writer who lives and breathes France

Faulks masterfully reminds readers of the city’s indecipherable mystique and bottomless artistic generosity

‘[a} stimulating novel’

Another terrific, intelligent read from Faulks