Warlight

Ondaatje’s prose is beautiful, and he successfully builds suspense and tension without seeming too heavy-handed

Ella Walker, Herald Scotland

Michael Ondaatje is at his best when writing about awkward, quiet types

A. S. H. Smyth, Spectator

Brilliant dramatic tale

Love it!

Ondaatje’s prose is consistently illuminating. Warlight is a meditation on the purpose and possibilities of storytelling

Ben Masters, Literary Review

[T]his elegiac novel combines the stealth of an espionage thriller with the irresolute shift of a memory play, purposefully full of fragments, loss and unfinished stories. Wonderful

Claire Allfree, Daily Mail

Warlight is a subtly thrilling story… It's a masterful book

Rachel Fellows, Esquire UK

For the lyrical strength of the prose alone, a new Michael Ondaatje novel is always a treat

Irish Independent

[C]ompulsively and grippingly readable… Ondaatje is a marvelous writer, and Warlight is a novel which will continue to play in the reader’s imagination

Allan Massie, The Scotsman

Warlight is a layered, precisely written, erudite meditation on the damage we do when we make war

Morag MacInnes, Tablet

In Warlight we have a writer who knows exactly what he’s doing – and has constructed something of real emotional and psychological heft, delicate melancholy and yet, frequently, page-turning plottiness. I haven’t read a better novel this year

Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph

[Ondaatje’s] prose has a haunting musicality, which George Blagden brings out to the full.

Christina Hardyment, The Times