effendi - reviews

(Shortlisted BSFA Award for Best Novel)

'If you're not reading Jon Courtenay Grimwood then you don't know how subtle and daring fiction can be.' Michael Marshall

'An intriguing cross-genre premise that allows for a lot of fun.' The Observer

'JCG has emerged over the last few years as one of the more interesting newer British novelists... No one else is doing anything like it - or even trying to. Grimwood actually seems to have been in the places he makes up.' Locus

'By turns affecting, engrossing and bewildering, so that great anticipation is created... these books go straight into the tiny to-be-read-again-as-soon-as-possible pile.' Interzone

'If Pashazade was a success, Effendi is a triumph. JCG has taken the direction he embarked upon with the first book, mirrored and echoed the narrative structure therein and pushed his writing to another level.' TTA

‘The dazzling Pashazade was always going to be a hard act to follow, but it comes as little surprise that the prodigally-talented Grimwood has pulled off the trick.’ Publishing News

''Masterful and highly enjoyable not to mention highly original, the story is engrossing and the characters riveting, making Effendi what I can only hope is merely the second in a long series of Arabesk novels to come.' Enigma (Waterstone's magazine)

'Pashazade was, quite simply, the best SF novel I read last year, and Effendi is a worthy successor...' Steve Robinson, Ottakars

'Grimwood effortlessly plays by several sets of rules at once, and is as accomplished a thriller writer - doing noir as well as he does courtroom - as he is as a writer of his own sometimes quite strange brand of commercial sf.' Roz Kaveney, Amazon