Mr Cadmus is a treat of a tale. To a "polite" English village add a sprinkling of sinister. The result? Cosy and twisted, comic and gothic, with a show-stealing parrot -- JESS KIDD Entertaining and wildly unpredictable, with a soupçon of the supernatural * * Mail on Sunday * * Murderous intrigue plays out against a backdrop of curtain-twitching small-town banality in this playful black comedy * * Sunday Times * * Follows the mysterious Mr Cadmus who hails from a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of and turns life in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne upside down * * The Times, Best books to look out for * * Blackly comic . . . as the body count mounts, Ackroyd's novel moves beyond Midsomer Murders territory and into the realm of the truly weird * * Daily Mail * * Praise for Peter Ackroyd: Extraordinary, amazing, vivid, convincing. [ Ackroyd's] view of life questions the role not just of the novel but of art and history, memory, time and much else * * Financial Times * * A novel remarkable for [ its] power, ingenuity and subtlety * * London Review of Books * * Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed * * Independent on Sunday * *
