“Paul Kingsnorth’s books have such a profound effect on me that I always feel I must make them into a play or a film or something after reading them.”
— Sir Mark Rylance
“Kingsnorth’s style is a kind of ancient modernism, and he’s really the only writer doing anything like it.”
— London Review of Books
“England’s greatest living writer.”
— Unherd
“A furiously gifted writer.”
— Washington Post
“Whatever you think of Kingsnorth there are few writers as raw or brave on the page.”
— Los Angeles Review of Books
“Kingsnorth’s is a unified sensibility, alert to beauty, immersed in particularity.”
— Irish Times
“The black-pilled laureate of modern Britain.”
— Washington Examiner
“A radically original writer.”
— Geoff Dyer