Scorn

The Wisdom of Crocodiles

"The only writer, English or American, with the guts to take on the modern world in all its terrifying complexity."

The Week

"This is fiction on a grand and ambitious scale... inspires sensations of terror, nausea, bemusement and exhilaration."

Daily Telegraph

"His insights into some of the female characters are among the novel's most valuable details. And the chapter about the childhood of Fraud Secretariat deputy director Michael McCarthy, spent watching his father jump out of aircraft (Hoffman's father was a sports parachutist), is a masterpiece."

The Independent

"...the most horrible book I ever read and the only one I ever physically destroyed so that nobody else would have the displeasure of reading it."

Amazon review

The Golden Age of Censorship

"Hoffman's witty style and command of satire, coupled with the unique setting, makes this a hugely original and enjoyable novel."

Time Out

"Moves with the pace of the best thrillers."

Independent on Sunday

The Left Hand of God Trilogy

"Writers like Hoffman are too rare. This wonderful book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself."

Conn Iggulden

"Brooding and magnificent... Hoffman has created a terrifying world and filled it with strange and complex characters."

Eoin Colfer

"Brilliant. Mervyn Peake takes on Dickens in a head to head clash with a manga comic that takes no prisoners. Strange, funny, violent and intriguing."

Charlie Higson

"A dark novel, haunting and exciting. If you do not enjoy this book something has died in your soul."

Harry Sidebottom

"A cult classic..."

Daily Express

"Tremendous momentum."

Daily Telegraph