'An excellent collection of dark, funny and bizarre short stories... brutally, cynically and honestly written... all in all a lot better than anything David Baddeil could ever manage.' Loaded on Barcelona Plates; '14 bleak funny pitiless tales... This is life looked at through the wrong end of a telescope, the vision of Nathaniel West in Miss Lonelyhearts, and to my mind just as good... Inside every fat git there's a poet trying to get out. Well, he's out.' Observer on Barcelona Plates; 'Sayle is a funny man, and these tales of pensioners-turned-hitmen, mysterious white Fiat Unos, and inveterate hypochondriacs defy you not to smile at the incremental absurdity of ordinary life.' The Sunday Times on Barcelona Plates; 'A cracking read.. dense with smart ideas, sour observations and loony rant's Independent on Sunday on Barcelona Plates; Barcelona Plates will put a smile on your face and a chill down your spine Time Out on Barcelona Plates; Alexei Sayle's manner on the page is the same as it is on screen and stage: arch, dessicated and menacing... 'The Last Woman Killed in the War' is a thrilling and sensitive meditation on history, race and identity; confirming Sayle as a brilliant chronicler of big stories set in small worlds. The Times
