The Quarry

Shot through with Banks' trademark humour, political engagement and hope -- Louise Welsh * The Times *
A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel * Independent *
Wonderfully exuberant... written with the life-enhancing verve characteristic of Banks' best work * Scotsman *
Infallibly entertaining * Telegraph *
In Banks we had a novelist of supreme subtlety and one who, in fiction as in life, and for all the concentrated horror of his debut novel, all the epic estrangements of his 'skiffy' (sci-fi), and all the grimness of his final months, had an irrepressible sense of fun that is evident on every page of The Quarry * Independent *
This is a novel that's perched at the dangerous edge of things, looking down. It's an urgent novel and an important one * Observer *
Vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol * Mirror *
A compelling, raw book -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
Banks' handling of big, complex themes is skilful and satisfying, and he concludes on a quietly moving note of compassion * The List *
Banks's relaxed fluency - the direct, funny, unpretentious intelligence of his writing... along with his teeming imagination, made him perhaps Britain's best-loved major contemporary novelist * Guardian *
A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny ... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel. * Independent *
A novel shot through with Banks's trademark humour, political engagement and hope. -- Louise Welsh * The Times *
Wonderfully exuberant ... written with the life-enhancing verve characteristic of Banks's best work. * Scotsman *
Vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol. * Mirror *
A compelling, raw book -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
Banks' handling of big, complex themes is skilful and satisfying, and he concludes on a quietly moving note of compassion. * The List *
Infallibly entertaining * Telegraph *
Banks's relaxed fluency - the direct, funny, unpretentious intelligence of his writing, which, along with his teeming imagination, made him perhaps Britain's best-loved major contemporary novelist. * Guardian *