Shrewd, funny, original . . . very good company on the page.
Andrew Motion

Guardian

A national treasure.
Zadie Smith A seductively straightforward writer . . . like Orwell. Dyer writes engrossingly on everything from love of doughnuts to his sequestered working class childhood in Swindon.
Will Self

Financial Times

One of my favourite of all contemporary writers. I love his sense of the absurd, his pessimism mixed with robust good cheer, his beautifully crafted sentences, his jokes and his intelligence.
Alain de Botton Languid, elegant, brilliantly conversational.
Tim Adams

Observer

A true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight . . . Dyer is a must-read for our confused and perplexing times.

William Boyd

Dyer is becoming a character just as arch and seductive as that professional self-effacer from the previous generation, Alan Bennett.

Observer

Insightful, humorous, and . . . exemplifies his passion, wit and ability.
Rob Sharp

Independent

An irresistibly funny storyteller, [Dyer] is adept at fiction, essay and reportage, but happiest when twisting all three into something entirely his own.

New Yorker

It's this ability to develop such passions that gives the literary flaneur his curious edge, a gift for turning both acute spasms of obsession and long-rumbling preoccupations into writing, a highly strung take on the journalistic necessity of burrowing into a subject like a worm in an apple, then moving on to a new fruit
Victoria Segal

Guardian