Sharp Teeth

Violent...Tender...Cool...Ambitious...it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about

Nick Hornby

Forget any reservations you might have about werewolf stories or verse novels. This is great, engaging, wonderful stuff. Sondheim should make it his next musical

Michael Moorcock

The blending of urban heat and gothic savagery is blackly funny - and it works beautifully. The idea of lycanthropy has never been so hypnotically lyrical. And the romantic relationship between the human dog handler Anthony and secret shape shifter Sasha is drawn with real tenderness. There is biting comedy, too

Daily Telegraph

Daringly original... A wonderously strange story. His evocation of urban werefolf underworld is both inventive and probable

New Statesman

A hot-tongued, howling wolf of a book, strange and tender, luscious and cool, frisky as a pup but with a mouthful of fangs. Once bitten, I was smitten by its beauty

Joseph O'Connor

This free-verse novel about the lusts and longings and furies of a group of lycanthropes in Southern California may just turn out to be one of the literary highlights of the decade. It's odd, intriguing, absorbing, at times beautiful and always unique. At last a writer has appeared who is unafraid to do something new with an old form. I wolfed it down

Niall Griffiths

Toby Barlow is a true original. Sharp Teeth is darkly funny, witty, philosophical in its quirky, deceptive way, technically accomplished and strangely moving. It's eccentric and original, but it might just get the readership it deserves. It's a fine book

John Burnside

Not for the faint-hearted

Financial Times

Gripping

Independent