The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts

As austerity ripples on in this century, the book's combination of escapism and relevance continues to draw me in. The language is so inventive, the characters so brilliantly (often absurdly) captured, and their behaviour so close to pantomime, that it renders the whole a garishly compelling and thought-provoking read

Elle-Violet Bramley, Guardian

The Day of the Locust has scenes of extraordinary power. Especially I was impressed by the pathological crowd at the premiere, the character and handling of the aspirant actress and the uncanny medieval feeling of some of his Hollywood background set off by those vividly drawn grotesques

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A talented and somewhat neglected author... wonderfully imaginative and slightly disturbed

Daily Telegraph

Black-as-pitch Hollywood farce

The Guardian

It certainly packs a wallop

John Dos Passos

These novels say more about the way we live now- and the things that brought us to our present pass - than any other work of fiction I can think of

L.E. Sissman, New Yorker