King Rat

"A genuine contribution to London’s subterranean mythology… It’s humane and delinquent. And it bites"

Iain Sinclair

"Full of the rank energy of Jungle rhythms, China Miéville’s rat’s nest of a book gives a new meaning to the term ‘alternative London’, a kingdom we didn’t know we’d inherited. KING RAT goes down as sweetly as week-old garbage, to leave the reader eyeing speculatively the manhole covers of Soho and Battersea. A knotted, toothy, thought provoking read."

M. John Harrison

"China Miéville is an intriguing new voice in British fantasy. He’s inventing a language for Jungle London that’s both ancient and part of the city’s future."

Christopher Fowler

"A story so compelling you almost haven’t time to notice how fine the writing is: a dark myth reinvented for our time and for London in particular with great wit, style and imagination"

Ramsey Campbell

"King Rat takes us out of the high courts of fairy tale, away from the romanticised city streets of many current fantasies, down into the sewers… And his characters are fabulous, even the bit players… This is a riveting, brilliant novel. The language sings, the concepts are original and engrossing… an utter delight"

Charles De Lint

To Max