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‘I love reading Simenon. He makes me think ofChekhov’
– William Faulkner
‘A truly wonderful writer ... marvellously readable– lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he creates’
– Muriel Spark
‘Few writers have ever conveyed with such a suretouch, the bleakness of human life’
– A. N. Wilson
‘One of the greatest writers of the twentiethcentury ... Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by hisbrilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories’
– Guardian
‘A novelist who entered his fictional world as ifhe were part of it’
– Peter Ackroyd
‘The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist wehave had in literature’
– André Gide
‘Superb ... The most addictive of writers ... A uniqueteller of tales’
– Observer
‘The mysteries of the human personality arerevealed in all their disconcerting complexity’
– Anita Brookner
‘A writer who, more than any other crime novelist,combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal’
– P. D. James
‘A supreme writer ... Unforgettablevividness’
– Independent
‘Compelling, remorseless, brilliant’
– John Gray
‘Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentiethcentury’
– John Banville