Tear into these pages of prose with big bites. Ignore critics' parallels of Waugh, ignore their labels of it as satire. Take it as it comes. Winner of Britain's Booker Prize 2004.

Atmospheric and best of all, each rhythmic sentence moves thought, action, and characters forward beat by beat to its lingering haunting end.

I haven't yet read his ealier books called "The Folding Star", "The Spell", and "The Swimming-Pool Library".