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A warm, funny, immensely entertaining story about the impossibility of putting up with your relations  especially if they happen to be Gods. Anansi Boys combines the anarchy of Douglas Adams with a Wodehousian generosity of spirit. Guaranteed to make all but the most committed arachnophobe feel gratefully towards spiders Susanna Clarke (Susanna Clarke 20051001)

The author...gives us powerful deities - Anansi is as charming and dangerous as he ought to be A thoughtful, atmospheric novel 

(The Times 20051001)

Whizzing, twirling, erupting into dazzling cartwheels, firing off showers of multi-colored sparks, chortling to itself and muttering killer-diller one-liners, ANANSI BOYS draws the reader, ever more wide-eyed and amazed, into a world both feather-light and chockablock with mortal danger. Only Neil Gaiman could have brought this fraught enchantment into being, and the ongoing, ultimately revelatory travails of Fat Charlie Nancy display Gaimans remarkable imaginative powers at full stretch. This book is going to sail off the shelves Peter Straub (Peter Straub 20051029)

Neil Gaiman is one of the few genuinely intelligent writers of what is generally described as post-modern fiction  his work is thoughtful, wise, spiritually challenging and incredibly funnyFrom Gaiman, its a treasure, every word. I cant imagine a better way to start a holiday Manda Scott, Church of England Newspaper, 22 July 2005 (Manda Scott, Church of England Newspaper 20051113)

Brilliant mingling of the mundane and the fantastic Publishers Weekly, 18/7/05 (Publishers Weekly 20060530)

Gaiman juggles several intersecting narratives expertlyblithely echoing numerous creation myths and folklore motifs, Terry Southerns antic farces, Evelyn Waughs comic contes cruel, and even  here and there  Muriel Sparks whimsical supernaturalismenormously entertaining throughout Kirkus Reviews, 15 July 2005 (Kirkus Reviews 20060604)

A book its impossible not to love (Starburst )

Gaiman is best-known for his Sandman series of graphic novels, but here he demonstrates an equally vivid ability to portray the mythic and the fantastic in comic prose...slapstick and verbal pyrotechnics are the primary motors of the book. The apparent effortlessness of this sort of writing requires planning and execution of a very high order... Neil Gaiman is a very good writer indeed, and this is a very funny bedtime story

(Daily Telegraph )

Bizarre, bonkersrather brilliant

(Ian Hislop )

Exhilarating and terrifying

(Independent )

This is the most accomplished of Gaimans novels thus far... Anansi Boys has charm going for it and a plot that pirouettes on a dime. Urbane and sophisticated

(Time Out )

Part soap opera, part macabre fairy tale, part supernatural horror... Gaimans writing is as sharp as ever, full of flair and fun...his characters are huge and full-blooded... Often hilarious and just as often unsettling, Anansi Boys is a dark delight

(SFX magazine )

[Neil Gaiman is the] literary equivalent of a sexy rock star

(Scotland on Sunday )

A warm, funny, immensely entertaining story... Anansi Boys combines the anarchy of Douglas Adams with a Wodehousian generosity of spirit (Susanna Clarke )

As imaginative fiction goes it has become clear that Gaiman has long since left any box. His credentials as a bankable novelist have grown with each titlefrom his epic of warring divinities, AMERICAN GODS, to ANANSI BOYS, which debuted at number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.'

(Time, Australia )

'Mixing farce and fantasy, epic mythology and domestic drama, Gaiman's novel is a clever piece of storytelling and a celebration of the magic of make-believe.'

( Independent on Sunday )

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Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared  right now his life is spinning out of control, and it is all his dads fault.

If his rotter of an estranged father hadnt dropped dead at a karaoke night, Charlie would still be blissfully unaware that his dad was Anansi the spider god. He would have no idea that he has a brother called Spider, who is also a god. And there would be no chance that said brother would be trying to take over his life, flat and fiancée, or, to make matters worse, be doing a much better job of it than him. Desperate to reclaim his life, Charlie enlists the help of four more-than-slightly eccentric old ladies and their unique brand of voodoo  and between them they unleash a bitter and twisted force to get rid of Spider. But as darkness descends and badness begins is Fat Charlie Nancy going to get his life back in one piece or is he about to enter a whole netherworld of pain? (20050601)

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