Stories from Other Places

One of the best English novelists of our time

Alan Massie, Wall Street Journal

A world writer

Sunday Herald

Nicholas Shakespeare is one of those writers who can do anything

Sydney Morning Herald

A tremendous and captivating writer

The Independent

One of our best and truest novelists

The Times

A master craftsman

Los Angeles Times

He tells a story like an angel

The Observer

One of our dozen or so best

Literary Review

Shakespeare captures this historical moment beautifully and in elegant prose...It's a fascinating story... skilfully told. It is also timely. Because the story Shakespeare tells resonates so deeply with current tensions it is weightier than its length might suggest.

Praise for the story 'Oddfellows', The Saturday Paper

Riveting...one of Britain's finest writers...I do not expect to read a more formidable piece of short fiction this year.

Praise for the story 'Oddfellows', Sydney Morning Herald

[A] fantastic story...one of the most superb literary gems I have read in recent times. Facts and fiction merge in this riveting and relevant work. In a word - brilliant!

Praise for the story 'Oddfellows', Hobart Mercury

In each story Shakespeare brilliantly transports us to other places, times, cultures and communities, but for all their differentness and exotic heat and dust, in essence they are places we know only too well

Katie Law, Evening Standard

Eight nuggets of pure, bold storytelling

Holly Kyte, Sunday Telegraph

transports the reader to different places around the globe, and frequently back in time as well

UK Press Syndication

Accomplished and craftsmanlike

Phil Baker, Sunday Times

'Oddfellows' [the novella that begins the collection] is a sublimely sparse and economically elegant powder keg of a story… Shakespeare’s shape of the story is sheer craftsmanship and the precision of his prose is a shimmering peak of imagination and imagery.

Sydney Arts Guide