'A thrillingly tense read... a novel of riveting clarity and international relevance for our turbulent times'
- Claire Kilroy
'An intricately plotted game of cat and mouse where it's never clear who'll turn out to be the cat and who the mouse - a novel which brings Austin Duffy's distinctive blend of black humour and moral seriousness to the literature of the Troubles'
- Carys Davies
'Duffy is a writer everyone should be reading, starting with Cross - a jolting, gut-punch of a book in which Duffy masterfully captures how a state of perpetual conflict curdles life on individual, communal and even environmental levels, leaving no one and no place unscathed'
- Noel O Regan
'A tremendous novel, powerful and compelling, written with great gritty authenticity'
- William Boyd