«This impressive book limits itself to neither the light-hearted nor the undisturbably grave»

Sunday Times

«He has a great deal to say-a likeable, readable and profoundly gripping book»

Scotland on Sunday

«Ten years of Salman Rushdie's incisive non-fiction»

Independent

«Rushdie has used all his experience and literary skills to defend what is most worth defending: our freedom to think, and say, and write what we want, without fear for our lives»

Sunday Telegraph

«Rushdie is the most assiduous reader of other people's work, a true and tireless man of literature...a total believer in the power of the word»

Observer