Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Captain Corelli's Mandolin achieves that rare feat of saying something new about war...fusing with remarkable felicity the cosmic and the tragic, the lyrical and the epic... And without offering easy answers, it poses difficult questions about love and suspicion, trust and betrayal, faith and despair, creativity and destruction

André Brink, Times Literary Supplement

Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a wonderful, hypnotic novel of fabulous scope and tremendous, iridescent charm - and you can quote me

Joseph Heller

A master of haunted realism. His best novel yet. He deals with death and love and tragedy... This is a novel to be prized

Daily Mail

A tall tale and a serious work of literature…its reputation suggests that one "should" read it, and so far I would have to agree

Nigel Rodenhurst, Times Higher Education

A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy

Daily Mail

A wonderful epic novel...it has made him a name to conjure with. Both on the large and the small scale it is an absorbing and memorable book...the sweep, invention and warmth of the novel carries one effortlessly along

Derwent May, The Times

An emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothnes s between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history...it's lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest

Observer

An enthralling tale of endurance and passion, full of emotional intelligence

Charles Spencer, Daily Express

Hypnotic...a vast tapestry woven in tiny, colourful, intricate detail...a graphic and moving commentary on the futility of war. This magical book stayed in my head long after I had finished it

Marian Keyes

Louis de Bernières is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh...he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste

Evening Standard

Stunning... A high-spirited historical romance...remarkable.

New York Times Book Review