The Book of the Heathen - Hardcover

"'Relentless . . . an impressive and disturbing work of art'" (Robert Nye Literary Review)

"'Precise and compelling . . . maintains a relentless hold on the reader's interest . . . a fable about versions of truth and moral responsibility. It also belongs to a very British tradition: the mapping of non-Europe as a nightmare world in which the European psyche confronts its own dark madness'" (Aamer Hussein Independent)

"'Rendered in prose whose steadiness and transparency throw the dark turbulence of what is happening into damning relief'" (Peter Kemp The Sunday Times)

"'A very gripping story . . . the reader is drawn in inexorably to discover what horror lies at the heart of it . . . an apocalyptic fable for today'" (John Spurling The Times Literary Supplement)

"'Many respectable judges would put Edric in the top ten of British novelists currently at work . . . as a writer, he specialises in the delicate hint and the game not given away'" (D.J. Taylor Spectator)

Robert Edric's breakout book, a stunning novel set in colonial Congo