J.G.Farrell's novels approached troubled colonial histories with creative genius and profound empathy; recognition of his stature has grown in the years since his untimely death. In my opinion he stands as one of the very best novelists writing in English in the later twentieth century - Prof. Roy Foster Time has burnished Farrell's reputation and he is recognised as ... Read morea central figure in British literature of the twentieth century's second half. Nothing has surpassed the imaginative reach of his exploration of our colonial past - Ian McEwan I've always regarded JG Farrell as a true master... He wrote with such generosity and insight about individuals caught in the large tides of history, and he managed to combine perfectly his almost C19th-style storytelling gifts with a subtly modern sensibility - Kazuo Ishiguro Show Less