- Published: 2 August 2010
- ISBN: 9781409076889
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 608
Stone's Fall
- Published: 2 August 2010
- ISBN: 9781409076889
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 608
Fireworks, inventiveness and excitement of part three and a curmudgeonly inventor of torpedoes
Philippa Stockley, Evening Standard
an indefatigably clever storyteller...witty, laconic dialogue; a galloping pace, particularly in the first and third narratives; the author's silky, fluid prose; and above all the concluding passages, which detonate a series of surprises as poignant as they are grim
Daniel Mallory, TLS
The novel is above all a romp, albeit an exceptionally intelligent and entertaining one
David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
Pears has the good journalist's knack of making high finance enthralling - he can take Robert Peston's job any day - but it is his interest in the peculiar effects that money has on human beings that makes him a good novelist.
Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph
absorbing and also timely
Jessica Mann, Literary Review
this thoughtful, thoroughly satisfying novel... clever storytelling to reach imaginative heights
Waterstone's Books Quarterly
Iain Pears has an uncanny historical sense ... splendid return to the grand 19th-century novel
Jane Jakeman, The Independent
Engrossing and intelligent, it's the best sort of page-turner.
Amber Pearson, Daily Mail
Pears is in a class of his own; no one else could possibly succeed in making the world of big finance so hugely entertaining.
www.thetruthaboutbooks.com
Well worth the ride
Sunday Telegraph
...a complex novel of mystery and suspense narrated by three fascinating characters...I thoroughly recommend this title.
Landers Bookshop, Independent on Sunday