Splinters

Suhayl Saadi: Psychoraag interview
"...I see little point in attempting to mimic what's already been done very well by others. But I mean, I didn't write Psychoraag thinking, "Halleluia! Now I'm going to write the first Asian Scottish novel!"..."


Bret Easton Ellis: Lunar Park
"...It's hard to imagine a book more self-referential, "knowing", post-modern. Too clever by half, it's asking for its glasses to be pulled off and its head thrust down the toilet. One way it redeems itself is the immense subtlety with which it conveys the dizzying myriad twists of the author's gaze..."


Roger Morris: Taking Comfort
"...Yes, randomness is part of life; yes, it illustrates the disconnection between form and meaning, but it has the paradoxical effect of reminding the reader that this is a work of fiction, that there is a writer puppeteering madly...."