Rifling Paradise

Reviews / Votes

'If great openings are meant to make the reader turn the page, let's just say I turned it - and kept on feverishly turning to the very end... As a psychological thriller, it's as close to wonderful as anything l've recently read... Stannard is a stunning creation - awkward, difficult, dangerously self-deluding and, ultimately, someone who moves you to inspect your own damaged soul.' - Julie Myerson, Guardian. 'Satisfyingly creepy... What distinguishes the book is not so much the plot but the imagination and prose, comparable to Michel Faber's work in its evocative quality... beautifully written, full of precision and intensity.' - Jane Jakeman, Independent. 'One of the best first novels l've read for a long time... Poster mixes together the familiar ingredients with a subtlety that is rare in contemporary writing' - Ron Butlin, Glasgow Sunday Herald. 'Poster constructs a thrilling narrative on the mystical power of history and stones, and the personal tragedy found in a lack of self-knowledge. It's rare to find a book with such spine-tingling opening lines, and such a quietly appalling closing one.' - Metro. 'He writes beautifully, with rustic setting and period circumstances vividly described' - Jessica Mann, Sunday Telegraph.