The Mark and the Void

Funny, moving, utterly brilliant

Irish Times, on Skippy Dies

An unforgettably exuberant saga

Emma Donoghue, on Skippy Dies, Daily Telegraph

I loved Skippy Dies

Ali Smith, Times Literary Supplement

A fantastic novel. I laughed and wept

Bret Easton Ellis, on Skippy Dies

People always tell me 'If you love Paul Murray so much, why don't you marry him?' Now thanks to recent legislation in his native Ireland, I finally can. And so should you, reader. The Mark and the Void not only monetizes the death of the novel, but makes us believe in its resurrection. Praise the Lord for Paul Murray's big brain and tender heart!

Gary Shteyngart

Five years after his hugely successful novel Skippy Dies, Murray's third book is utterly original and very funny

Irish Times

With The Mark and the Void, Paul Murray has done the impossible: he's written a novel about international finance that not only isn't dense, boring, or annoyingly didactic, but is, in fact, a hilarious page-turner with a beating human heart. To put all of these elements in a pot and alchemically produce something so brilliant and cohesively constructed, one might assume Paul Murray is a witch. I think he's simply a great writer.

Adam Wilson, author of 'Flatscreen' and 'What's Important Is Feeling'

The Mark and the Void is Murray's best book yet - a wildly ambitious, state-of-the-nation novel, and a scabrously funny yet deeply humane satire on the continuing fall-out of the biggest financial crisis in 75 years

The Bookseller