Pashazade

short-listed for 2002 Clarke Award, BSFA Award for Best Novel and John W. Campbell Memorial Award (US)

'Alternately violent and touching, exotic and strangely familiar. Grimwood's El Iskandryia is a place worth visiting. The next two installments, Effendi and Fellaheen, can't appear too soon...' Washington Post

'A provocative hard-crime novel, Arabic alternate history, and literary page-turner all in one.' Entertainment Weekly

'An agreeably high tech entertainmenet whose demouement hinges on the revfelation of an ingeniously low-tech instrument of murder.' New York Times

'Grimwood's imagination and the lively originality of his writing make this an intriguing enterprise...' Chicago Tribune

'All brilliant light and scorching heat... Grimwood has successfully mingled fantasy with reality to make an unusual, believable and absorbing mystery.' Sunday Telegraph

'A mature balance between sensibility and action in what's essentially a rite of passage story allied with a detective thriller - deftly told and laced with neat ideas.' Time Out

'Jon Courtenay Grimwood is a step ahead of his contemporaries. He sees the world through unforgiving eyes, yet his style is razor sharp, his prose is biting and his vision unique...' George Mann, Ottakars.

'All the makings of an excellent film - producers, take note.' Locus

'The story line increases in complexity as it unfolds and Grimwood's hard, pithy style is gripping to the end.' Focus

'The extraordinary depth and complexity of the plot is matched by the prose style... cannot be recommended highly enough.' Interzone.

'A novel which pulls you in and doesn't let go... If this is sf, then bring it on, I can't wait for the next installment.' South Wales Echo

'Intelligently written and compulsive… Pashazade is a delightful hybrid of detective fiction, SF and alternate history, dusted with the street lyricism of Jeff Noon and a hint of Angela Carter-like magic.' coldprint