BURNING BLUE: 'A page-turning thriller that combines a storyteller's gift with intellectually brilliant invention' Publishers News 'From the start, Dronfield holds the attention wtih his fluent prose and a fine descriptive eye' Crime Time PRAISE FOR RESURRECTING SALVADOR: 'It works well and the book contains some fantastic flourishes of prose...RESURRECTING SALVADOR is a long, excellent book in which characters, scenes and new thoughts come alive in the hands of a gifted and interesting writer' Express 'Dronfield's suspenseful and incisive work brilliantly creates the atmosphere of a ruined chateau resurrected on the wastes of Dartmoor' The Times 'This is a rewarding and accomplished read' Jersey Evening Post 'His second dazzling psychological thriller' South Wales Argus Praise for THE LOCUST FARM: 'A tense page-turner...dodging between serial-killer thriller, psychological suspense and full-on action drama' Val McDermid; 'Baffling terrifying and irresistible, THE LOCUST FARM will hold you in its sinister grip to the last page' Jill Paton Walsh; 'A psychological suspense novel with a tour de force ending it would take a thumb screw to make me reveal' Mark Timlin 'An intricate plot that wouldn't disgrace Iain Banks...the ending will take your breath away' The Mirror 'The Alchemist's Apprentice is a remarkable book. Philosophical yet engaging, fantastic yet rooted in a very specific place and time. The characters are well-drawn, the dry humour ever-present' -- SFX magazine 20011001 'A genuinely magical novel: funny, clever and weird' -- Michael Marshall Smith 20011001 'Funny, weird and intricate... A gifted, original writer' -- Sunday Telegraph 20011001 'Dronfield writes with a breezy good humour and insouciant flair and...offers some thought-provoking meditations on the nature of fiction and its relationship with reality. He also has a flawless control of the mechanisms of fiction, playing his literary tricks with baffling dexterity. The result is intelligent, provocative and utterly beguiling' -- The Times 20011001 'A captivating metaphysical mystery and an otherworldly love story' -- Sunday Times 20011001 'The story mixes elements of Iain Banks' wilfully perverse attitude with the absurdity of Douglas Adams at his best... A fine read' -- Scotland on Sunday 20011001 'Echoes of Dean Koontz, Wilkie Collins and Frances Hodgson Burnett' -- Independent on Sunday 20021216 'Entertaining, funny, well observed, with a wicked viciousness when observing everyday people' -- Radio Scotland 20021216 'This book is absolutely huge fun, satisfying, twisty and cool in every way. In fact, I think I liked it better than 'On a Winters night a traveller' which it resembles in some ways. Go for it- funny, clever and, in a world starved of individual voices, *different*- a story about books, alternative worlds, mysteries and the love a man can have for a large badly behaved dog.' -- Jenny Colgan, Amazon 20010819 'Pace and a breezy tone' -- Guardian 20021215 'A plot which confounds at every turn of the page... The end result is the book manages to be thought-provoking while providing an utterly compelling read' -- The Big Issue in the North 20011201 Jenny Colgan picked THE ALCHEMIST'S APPRENTICE as one of the books she loved this year. -- The Scotsman 20011129
