A seamless masterpiece
Peter Carty, Independent on Sunday

I urge you to read it
Robert MacFarlane, Observer

A truly great book that will be read by serious people long after most of the literary fiction of our time is forgotten
Richard Holloway, Sunday Herald

A masterpiece
John Burnside, The Times

Hugely original
Alex Clark, The Guardian

Gould's Book of Fish is a novel about fish the way Ulysses is a novel about the events of a single day
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

A strange and amazing book
Alex Linklater, Prospect

This first novel combines the narrative ingenuity of Golding's Pincher Martin with the imaginative detail of De Bernieres' Captain Corelli. It's a torrent of a book - take the plunge
Independent

Death of a River Guide defies superlatives. It is that rare commodity - a wonderful fiction which has pace, depth of feeling, and infinite imaginative possibilities
Scotland on Sunday

One of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing
TLS

Combines a rich voice, highly original, with great invention and engrossing narrative pace... very, very good indeed
Thomas Keneally

Richard Flanagan's first novel could well become a classic, doing for Tasmania what Gabriel Garcia Márquez did for Colombia or William Faulkner did for Mississippi
Mercury (Tasmania)

A tightly riveted, almost classic thriller. The narrative pace is fast, the characters deftly honed... This is a damn good story delivered with the glittering prose that only the rage of just moral anger can achieve.Rachel Holmes
The Times

A thriller of genuine importance... fired by passionate concern.Toby Clements
Daily Telegraph

A searing depiction of how bigotry feasts on rumour and prejudice... To have achieved this feat inside a razor-sharp narrative, with humour and a keen eye for the ironies of politics... is nothing short of brilliance.James Wood
Scotland on Sunday

Funny, filmic and gripping.Sophie Ratcliffe
Daily Mail

As accessible and timely as they come - an intense and thoughtful thriller set in a paranoid Sydney ablaze with terrorism fever.Jonathan Gibbs
Metro

A terrific novel, maintained at fever heat.James Buchan
Guardian

It grips from the very first page and forces you to read on to its explosive, tragic climax... This is a carefully patterned novel, full of surprises, that paints a devastating picture of the world today. It may be set on the other side of the planet but the punches it packs hit home - hard.Mark Sanderson
Sunday Telegraph

Read this novel now, before it's too late for any of us to understand its message.
James Wood, Scotland on Sunday