The Paradox - Couverture souple

The Paradox serves to provide us with fantastically dark characters, goodies and baddies, as well as some rather unexpected alliances (Time Out)

Exciting, exhilarating, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realised. This feels like the start of something amazing (Mike Carey)

Confirms his position as one of the most ingenious and intelligent writers of fantasy . . . I can barely wait for the next volume (The Scotsman on The Paradox)

The Paradox is the real deal, darkly dusted Dickensian counter mythology at its very best. (SF Site)

An atmospheric, creepily delicious concoction of alleyways and dark magic, mirror worlds where danger dwells at every turn, and nuanced, complex characters, all with their own story. Those already familiar with this world will be delighted, and newcomers will eagerly lose themselves in this utterly imaginative fantasy (Publishers Weekly)

The Oversight is - and let's be clear here - something very special . . . It's oh so moreish a morsel. I'd read a prequel this evening, a sequel as soon as. (Tor.com)

A dark and glinting book . . . told in a kind of compelling and hypnotic poesie that I just lapped up . . . I'll certainly be reading the next one (Cory Doctorow on The Oversight BoingBoing.net)

A highly entertaining fantasy that promises a trilogy worth sinking your teeth into (SciFiNow on The Oversight)

Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre Dickensian wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step (Frances Hardinge on The Oversight)

Richly atmospheric (the evil lurks in the background of every paragraph), the book should be a big hit with supernatural-fantasy readers ... the second book can't come soon enough (Booklist (starred review for The Oversight))