“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image
“I have long believed the city, the country, indeed the world at large to be run by precisely the wrong kind of people. From… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of the mean (the epithet 'golden' is un-Aristotelian) regularly occurs in later writers as a piece of moral advice -- a recipe… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image
“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image
“The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful place. It even told him as much.… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image
