Benjamin Myers is one of our most consistently interesting and challenging novelists and here in Whiteadder/Wolfspider he is writing at the height of his powers

PAT BARKER

Each new Myers novel guarantees you two things: it will be nothing like his last, and it will be utterly brilliant. Whiteadder/Wolfspider has the scope of a prog opus and the emotional punch of a three-minute pop song

MAT OSMAN

Every time you pick up a Benjamin Myers novel you know two things. One it will be nothing like his previous novel, two it will be utterly brilliant. This book is somehow at the same time a beautiful coming-of-age novel, a thriller and a formal experiment in what the novel can be

EVIE WYLD

In Benjamin Myers' brilliant new novel, the rise and fall of a mid-Sixties rock band becomes emblematic of a whole generation's hopes and failures ... From the first page to its surprising yet inevitable conclusion, Whiteadder/Wolfspider is triumphant. There is no contemporary English novelist whose work I admire more

RON RASH

Tender and menacing, Whiteadder/Wolfspider has a Dionysiac energy that only Myers can pull off. This is a troubling story about the pursuit of freedom, and a sharp social critique of state machinery and marginal living. By turns funny, moving and hair-raising

KIT FAN

A polyphonic masterpiece. Myers remains joyously unpredictable

AMY TWIGG