My Name Is Legion

Far and away the best novel of the year was A. N. Wilson's angry, passionate and spiritual onslaught on modern Mammon and the media... which should have won the Man Booker prize, but typically was not shortlisted

Hugh Massingberd, Spectator

A wonderful, thrilling depiction of media manipulation, corruption, tolerance and promiscuity. It's so good, and so wise, it hurts. It's the late-20th century in a gulp

Frances Fyfield, The Week

A real rattler of an entertainment

Philip Hensher, Spectator

Blisteringly funny... My Name Is Legion is not one of those soft-centred satires that ducks the issue. It throws down the gauntlet to Fleet Street and asks some tough questions of the newspapers we read

David Robson, Sunday Telegraph

My Name Is Legion weaves a compelling modern morality tale of crime and punishment that links the world of the rich and powerful to that of the poor and dispossessed... All of this is highly enjoyable, and kept going with an irresistibly waspish verve

Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday

The most spot-on novel about Fleet Street ever written... Chillingly accurate

Harry Mount, Daily Telegraph

A big, broad, sweeping book, as disturbing as it is funny

Guardian

Brilliantly inventive... A disturbing and highly original novel

Stephen Glover, Daily Mail

At its heart, this is a novel about the tabloid press in modern Britain. The scenes involving The Legion, its monstrous proprietor Lennox Mark and its variously brutal, corrupt of self-loathing journalists, are where Wilson's imagination has really been unleashed... Terrifyingly funny

Independent