The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings
V. S. Pritchett, The Times

The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings
V. S. Pritchett, The Times

Greene was a master of characterisation and this book is no exception
Independent on Sunday

Greene was a master of characterisation and this book is no exception
Independent on Sunday

In a class by himself - the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety
William Golding, Independent

In a class by himself - the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety
William Golding, Independent

A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy
New York Times

A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy
New York Times

Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations... For experience of a whole century he was the man within
Norman Sherry, Independent

Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations... For experience of a whole century he was the man within
Norman Sherry, Independent