Caravan Thieves

He writes with subtlety and skill... beautifully manipulating the language which veers and soars from the vernacular to the high-flown and summoning characters that are at once believable and sympathetic

Daily Telegraph

Extremely readable and enjoyable

Guardian

Brilliantly unsettling

Observer

In clean, uncomplicated prose inlaid with images of striking lyricism, Woodward explores the bizarre possibilities of ordinary people's lives

Sunday Telegraph

pungent and memorable

William Leith, The Scotsman

The author's humour often glimmers quietly and there is surreal black comedy

Hugo Barnacle, Sunday Times

An enjoyable collection.

Anthony Cummins, Daily Telegraph

The down-to-earth dialogue and the deadpan delivery remain doggedly realistic, and some stories retain not only the ring of truth but also its open-ended structure

Times Literary Supplement

Uncanny, absurd and at times macabre, these stories magically combine a poet's eye for imagery with a novelist's complexity of theme

Financial Times

Gerard Woodward falls squarely between the comic lunacy of American short-form virtuoso George Saunders and the everyday rhapsodies of Raymond Carver ... Woodward is actually at his best when he's knee-deep in the ordinary

Time Out