The Raw Shark Texts

Reviews / Votes

Inventive, funny and extremely smart . . . I nearly fell off my chair with admiration -- AUDREY NIFFENEGGER A fast, sharp-toothed work of genius. An instant classic -- MATT HAIG A psychological thriller with shades of Memento and The Matrix and the fiction of Mark Danielewski; page-turning, playful and chilling by turns * * Guardian * * Very entertaining. The bastard love-child of The Matrix, Jaws and The Da Vinci Code -- MARK HADDON Clever, exciting, funny and moving * * Sunday Times * * A horror-dystopic-philosophical mash-up that has critics drawing comparisons to Borges * * New York Times * * Jaws meets Alice in Wonderland . . . An avant-garde thriller in which these devil-fish of the unconscious somehow escape the symbolic realm * * Times Literary Supplement * * No novel with a cat called Ian in it can fail to win a place in my heart * * Daily Telegraph * * A thriller with elements of sci-fi, romance and memoir . . . A cracking read . . . but it's the outrageous inventiveness that marks it out as really special * * Irish Independent * * A cult in the making * * Time Out * * Leaves you breathless * * Daily Express * * Filled with surreal twists * * Vogue * * Genuinely isn't like anything you've ever read before * * Independent * * An absurdly confident and intriguing debut. Move over Damien Hirst * * Esquire * * Triumphant . . . Heartfelt, lyrical. A graphic novel in prose -- Joyce Carol Oates * * New York Review of Books * * A meditation on love and loss, a thriller that will haunt you. Pass it on to a friend. Commence debate * * GQ * * Utterly thrilling . . . leaves your heart pounding * * Marie Claire * * Dizzyingly good . . . Clever, fun, gripping and shot through with melancholy * * Scotland on Sunday * * Fast, sexy, intriguing, intelligent - The Raw Shark Texts is all these and more: a cult waiting to happen, a blockbuster begging to be made. Steven Hall is a truly fantastic storyteller. Investigate, now! -- TOBY LITT A book in which heart and head sing in tremulous balance * * Scotsman * * Donnie Darko meets Memento and Jaws. A postmodern spin on horror with a hip, Alex Garland vibe * * Independent on Sunday * * A dream (and nightmare) of a first novel . . . Immensely readable * * Sunday Herald * *