PORTFOLIO / Giuseppe Manuel Brescia

Alex Kotlowitz joins the ranks of the important few writers on the subject of urban poverty.
Chicago Tribune

Craig has done it. He's written a book that is a notch up. And I think he's solidified our trust in him as one of the best writers of the new millenium.
chuckpalahniuk.net

[...] a beguiling and arrestingly original mix, and suggests that unlike poor doomed Peter Jones, Ashon has a long literary career ahead of him.
The Independent

The most thoughtful book by a footballer than I can remember reading.
The Independent

An early contender for this year's literary prizes in sport.
Sunday Tribune

Indispensable to the reader with a passion for soccer and a thought and a care for everything else.

Hilarious and emotional... An amusingly cranky memoir.
The New York Times Book Review

[...] inventive, scary and darkly humorous [...] a dash of Stephen King and a hint of Lovecraft but is really sui generis.
The Observer

Where have I been all of Chelsea Handler's life? I had no idea how funny, how brilliant she is. She is too clever for words.
New York Post

Mr. Currie is a startlingly talented writer whose book will pay no heed to ordinary narrative conventions... He survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice of his own...
New York Times

Galveston is an assured debut full of hard truths, a throwback novel that ends up shouldering the noir genre forward.
Chuck Hogan, author of Devils in Exile and Prince of Thieves

In [...] a profound - and profoundly disturbing - debut novel, Ron Currie Jr. takes his place among the ranks of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Arthur C. Clark.
Bookpage

Finally, an authoritative account of the mythologized life of Sara Baartman.
Zoë Wicomb

Fantastic, very funny. The best sort of book about rock.
Andrew O’Hagan

Great writers can write anything, and Plugged is proof.
The Washington Post

Tusi Tamasese expands the border of cinema. [...] with striking images and anecdotal flair [...] we look forward to his next film.
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One of the best first novels I've ever read.
Charlaine Harris

A hulking raconteur and iconoclast, [Van Ronk] fondly captures the spirit of the times.
Q Magazine

A treat for any book lover, happily mated or cheerfully single.
USA Today

One of the absolutely essential books of our time.
Saturday Review of Literature

Dick quietly produced serious fiction in popular form and there can be no greater praise.
Michael Moorcock

A marvelous collection, certain to earn a treasured spot on many Young Adult bookshelves.
Ellen Hopkins, The New York Times

A modern footballing classic.
FHM

Simple, Everyday Ways You Can Make a Difference.

Satisfying and at times hugely joyous.
David Barnett, The Guardian

This Isn't Happening not only is an excellent way to revisit Kid A but also a springboard for thinking about the shifting fortunes of rock music, the Internet, and the uneasy century we've been living in for the past 20 years.
Ezra Koenig, Vampire Weekend