The Adulterants

Perfectly formed... a pin-sharp skewering of a certain type of modern urban thirtysomething male, trapped in a protracted adolescent state. It's one not to be missed

Bookseller

Dark, beautifully wry, and side-splittingly excruciating, The Adulterants is a triumph of voice and vision

Tea Obreht

Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart

Paul Murray

A tale of modern manhood, full of malaise, melancholy and wryly funny observations

S Magazine

A sharp satire of contemporary London and the modern urban male

Tatler

A richly illuminating comedy of disappointment, uproarious and mournful, that places Joe Dunthorne triumphantly in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and (that other Swansea resident) Kingsley Amis. A deft, brilliant, surprising joyride

The Art Desk

Joe Dunthorne's new book is a pleasure - I was very fortunate to get to read his book Submarine early and reading this one was equally thrilling. I owe him a great deal ( but refuse to repay him)

Richard Ayoade

Dunthorne is a superbly economical writer... He is also properly funny. There are several snort-through-your-nose moments. But throughout, the novel's comedy is always balanced by insight and poignancy

Observer

The Adulterants, from its punning title onwards, is brilliantly knowing about its knowingness. It knows the only way we'll tolerate a narrator as annoying as Ray is to punish him for the very virtues that make him a good narrator - nosiness and eloquence

Guardian

Joe Dunthorne is one of our best young writers

Metro

The Adulterants is thrust-the-book-at-the-person-next-to-you hilarious

New Statesman

Bristles with a deliciously sour, dyspeptic humour and is excellent at skewering the lifestyle habits of a liberal-minded middle-class

Daily Mail

Smartly written, The Adulterants riffs on London's housing crisis, competitively sensitive men and social media with wry insight

Book Riot

There is a chortle-inducing moment on almost every page... Dunthorne is not only one of contemporary fiction's funniest voices but also one of its most generous and perceptive

The Irish Times

A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent

The Times on 'Submarine'

A creation of some genius. Dunthorne is a naturally comic writer

Daily Telegraph on 'Wild Abandon'

Brilliant and laugh-out-loud enjoyable

Independent on 'Submarine'

Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age

New Statesman on'Submarine'

Insightful comic writing that manages to be both tender and biting

Independent on Sunday on 'Wild Abandon'

Publisher's Description: Thirty-something freelance tech journalist Ray hates his job, resents his more successful friends, is terrified of the London property ladder, and has just accidently cheated on his pregnant girlfriend. But no matter how bad life seems, he's about to learn that things can always get worse... From the comic genius behind Submarine comes a hilariously scathing new novel about modern life

Penguin