“He’s not a copper who happens to be a man. He’s a man who happens to be a copper, and he carries that weight with him everywhere he goes.”
“When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it.”
“Throughout this wonderful book, Pratt demonstrates acute descriptive powers and a piercing intelligence. It’s in describing her loneliness that she forges the deepest communion with the reader”
Anita Sethi
The Guardian
‘As quick-witted as a stand-up comic and as serious as the best of them tend to be, Kevin Barry is not only an inspired blend of Flann O’Brien and Anthony Burgess, he is an original.’
Eileen Battersby
The Irish Times
“She’s made me see that most of the writers I love are wild or nuts”
Geoff Dyer
The Guardian
“Dyer’s eyes miss nothing, and his brain emits sparks as brilliantly as The Lightning Field is meant to do in an evening thunderstorm”
Peter Conrad
The Guardian
“I think the Pied Piper is such an interesting figure. When you think about it’s weird what he did, taking them children away and it makes you ask questions. Why did he do it? Is that okay? Why did it happen? What’s the story trying to tell us?”
Russell Brand
The Guardian
The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber on Start the Week – along with writer William Gibson, LSE Professor Judy Wajcman and historian Dominic Sandbrook – talking science fiction and The Book of Strange New Things.
Start the Week
BBC
A fascinating visual breakdown of some of the effects in the Amazon pilot Oasis, based on The Book of Strange New Things.
The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber visits the Guardian’s books podcast, to talk about The Book of Strange New Things, and the separations of cosmic distance and death.
Books podcast
Guardian