E-raamat: Scorper: A Novel

Powerfully original, funny and strange and haunting -- Tessa Hadley, author * Clever Girl * Scorper is a charming, funny, tender pleasure. A pleasing air of mania and madness -- Andrew Miller, Costa Award-winning author * Pure * [ An] original, darkly comic novel... It's a funny, unsettling read; Kafka crossed with Flann O'Brien -- Brandon Robshaw * Independent on Sunday **** * [ A] funny, disturbing portrayal of a mind at odds with itself -- Hannah Rosefield * Guardian * Scorper is delightful. It's funny, thought-provoking, and different to anything that's preceded it. John Cull is a great character in a cast of great characters... It's a little work of genius * Bookmunch * Scorper is most unusual, and most rewarding. Gradually it bleeds from the pastoral through the surreal and into the horrific, like an Evelyn Waugh novel given the Edgar Allan Poe treatment, the kind of story where you don't realize until the shears have closed that you were caught between them -- Kevin Brockmeier, author * The Brief History of the Dead * This is rural mystery at its best - dark, deceitful and uncomfortable -- Andy Barr * Absolutely Chelsea and Fulham * [ A] funny, disturbing portrayal of a mind at odds with itself -- Hannah Rosefield * Guardian * Strange and beautiful -- Zoe Johnson * Big Issue in the North *