Praise for James Hawes
Praise for Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
"A magnificent tour de force. Illuminating, irreverent, iconoclastic. Brilliant!"---Dr. Peter Thompson, Director of the Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies, and author of The Crisis of the German Left
Praise for Speak for England
“We have the British to thank for the TV reality show, so it’s only fitting that they can do a brilliant parody of the bloody thing as well. We Yanks will find it great fun.”---Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“This creative American debut novel combines the TV shows Survivor and Lost with the novel Lord of the Flies . . . a harsh satirical look at both the age of reality TV and the dangers of romanticizing the past.”---Booklist
“James Hawes has matured into a wonderful satirist . . . a comic novelist of considerable stature.”---The Guardian
“The tone of the narrative is pitch-perfect. Hawes’s most impressive achievement is the political satire which kicks in toward the end.”---The Observer
“Comparisons with Evelyn Waugh are not misplaced.”---Sunday Telegraph
“You never want to stop turning the pages . . . each page is funny, sophisticated, and soul-wrenchingly accurate.”---Scotland on Sunday
Praise for A White Merc With Fins
“A major debut novel of the year. Highly recommended.” ---Library Journal
“From first-time author Hawes, one of the most endearingly caustic---yet still deftly sincere---novels to come out of Britain since Martin Amis’s The Rachel Papers. Hawes has leapt right into a comic league all his own. Good to the last drop.”---Kirkus Reviews
