outstanding paranormal mystery
- Publishers Weekly, starred review
Classic Jeff Noon weirdness with a beautifully crafted mystery at its heart.
- Starburst Magazine PRAISE FOR JEFF NOON
"It's a heady psychedelic mix, packed with literary allusions, which brilliantly explores notions of self-identity, personal awareness and how we fit into our own stories."
- The Guardian on The Body Library
"Rich, inventive and recommended."
- Sci-Fi Now on The Body Library
"A moody, grimy, ruthlessly funny read... its sense of play and sly manipulation of reader expectations - about metafiction, weird fiction, and noir -
is still quite the trip."
- Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog on The Body Library
"By writing a novel set in literature itself the author has created a new psychedelic meta-genre as well as a fantastic story that sticks in the mind long after the novel itself is read."
- British Fantasy Society
"
The Body Library is a brilliant piece of writing that does a satisfying job of merging noir, magical realism, and a love of all things literary."
- SF Revu
"A disturbing and bizarre journey by one of the great masters of weird fiction."
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Adrian Tchaikovsky,
Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time on A Man of Shadows
"Noon has written a kaleidoscopic noir novel of dizzying dream logic."
- Publishers Weekly on A Man of Shadows
"Clocks and watches form a recurrent motif in this artful, eerie novel that infuses the mystery genre with symbolism and soul."
- Financial Times on A Man of Shadows
"Wonderful and uniquely absorbing."
- Starburst on A Man of Shadows
"Noon is the Lewis Carroll of Manchester's housing estates."
- The Times
"Noon is a fiercely urban writer. [He] reflects the energy of the rave generation: the hammer and twist of the music, the language of the computer games addict and the buzz of technology."
- New Statesman
"Noon's blend of quirky ideas, striking prose and imaginative characterisations establishes him as one of the most original voices in imaginative fiction."
- Booklist
"Let's call him the first of the psychedelic fantasists."
- Time Out
"A virtual wonderland."
- Vanity Fair
"Humorous, horrific and wildly original... an imaginative masterpiece."
- Library Journal
"Observes most of the conventions of cyberpunk fiction [yet] its imagery is insistently organic, and owes more to the underground pharmacology of the rave scene than to the world of hard wired chips and user interface."
- New Yorker
"Intriguingly textured, reliably witty and inventive, Noon's whirling purposeful fantasy packs a full whallop."
- Kirkus Reviews
