Perfume

'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' - Guardian

'A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity ... Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading' - Literary Review

'A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay ... a remarkable début' - Peter Ackroyd, The New York Times Book Review

'Unlike anything else one has read. A phenomenon ... Everyone seems to want to get a whiff of this strange perfume, which will remain unique in contemporary literature' - Figaro

'An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy' - Daily Telegraph

'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' - Observer