China Miéville

“The Rouse is affecting, intelligent and, in more than one place, very, very frightening”

“'At once the most poetic horror and the most fearsome historical novel in contemporary letters. There is simply no equivalent to Miéville’s achievement. Line by astonishing line, Miéville has blasted past the bar set by even his own inimitable oeuvre. Reviewers will call this book monumental – and it is – but it is in exacting gorgeousness of every sentence that the epic triumph truly lies. Miéville has thrown a gauntlet: there is no way to tell the story of Britain’s 20th century without tearing the throat out of language and golemizing something entirely, shockingly new with its remains.'”