Nomad's Hotel

This is a jewel of a travel book, free of pretension, full of easy adventure, fresh with childlike wonder for the world.

Travel Extra

A traveller on a grand scale...beautifully crafted

Mark Cocker, Guardian

Some inimitable observations on life as she is lived

Irish Times

A cause for gentle celebration

Time Out

Nooteboom writes beautifully. His prose is clean and precise without feeling sparse, and he manages to combine clarity with intense lyricism

Rebecca Abrahams, Guardian

Nooteboom has shown himself a master of ironic wisdom, but also of elated, elegiac feeling

Ben Rogers, Independent on Sunday

Observant and meditative

The Times

As he makes his guileful, sharp, provoking, seductive progress across the globe, he's prepared to free-fall into dreamlike appreciation of sensation, prepared to be frightened, prepared , too, to scrutinise, question, challenge, admit to ignorance.... The writing scintillates... His book is a compass of sorts, quite useless for aiding escape on a desert island, but, in augmenting the bible and Shakespeare in that locale, quite indispensable nonetheless

Tom Adair, Scotland on Sunday

As with all exceptional writers who itch to travel, his writing attains an almost imperceptible stream of consciousness, one that takes it far beyond the usual serendipitous wanderings

Scotsman