an academic book for people scared of academic books. Turnbull's evocation of the BaMbuti is about the essence of things, and how we fit into the world. Did I really just say that? Anyway, it's magic.

Look down on the rest from here, it's the pinnacle, the absolute summit

The best, just the best, drama serial the Beeb ever put out. The book isn't too shabby neither.

you know, you could lose a fiver and get really upset; Walt manages to lose a country. Historical fiction for post modern sophisticates and that.

When Banks signed my battered old copy a couple of years back he smiled at the state of the cracked and dog-eared and well-thumbed book, then he wrote 'Ha!' on the last page... geddit?

The Red Riding Quartet is what Brit Crime *and* Brit Lit should be doing right now

worth visiting the link for Nigel and Martin's pompous critique alone. Don't these people realise that sometimes, all you want is good honest tat?! A BK Whopper of a book, OK? Jeez, take a chill pill

hallucinatory, macabre, dirty, chilling, thrilling, desperate and as clever as a stick in a bucket of pig swill

easily the most disturbing ending to a novel in years and years. Some of the images will never leave you (there's one, in the first few pages, that, well...)

one of THE original literary inventions of all time: begin at the beginning...