My Little Armalite

Hawes has developed into a prolifically inventive and increasingly subtle satirist. Though the current novel features all his regular trademarks - black humour, sharp dialogue and a plot that goes off with all guns blazing in every respect - one senses that this book is also Hawes's homage to one of the great academic satires of the last century, Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man

Guardian

Hawes scatters pellets of satirical wit on the twitchy paranoia of the ageing liberal

Arena

Terrific black satire

Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph

Very witty... Both laddish and slyly intelligent, Hawes has his cake and eats it

Daily Telegraph