Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book
Jim Crace, Financial Times

Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book
Jim Crace, Financial Times

An 18th-century reader, raised on a high-minded diet of elegy and pastoral, must have felt stunned on first encountering the jagged prose of a Daniel Defoe, with its street-wise populism and delight in the commonplace
Terry Eagleton,

An 18th-century reader, raised on a high-minded diet of elegy and pastoral, must have felt stunned on first encountering the jagged prose of a Daniel Defoe, with its street-wise populism and delight in the commonplace
Terry Eagleton,

Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence
Simon Armitage, Guardian

Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence
Simon Armitage, Guardian

Defoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel
Mail on Sunday

Defoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel
Mail on Sunday

Defoe was an imaginative genius
John Carey, Sunday Times

Defoe was an imaginative genius
John Carey, Sunday Times