As a tract of written language, [Stillicide] is close to perfect. As a repository for ideas, it is imaginative and far reaching. As a story of and for our times, it is very human, and deadly serious... blunt perfection * Guardian *
How big this small book is, giving the barest details of its future world...exciting, upsetting and essential * Financial Times *
Jones lets the contours of his chilly prophecy emerge in glimpses, leaving [...] plenty of white space for the reader's imagination * Metro *
A tense and moving love story...high-stake miniatures that expertly convey the impression of time moving but also staying still... unforgettable * Daily Mail *
I thought there were moments of beautiful poetry in this. . . A very strong atmosphere -- Laurence Scott * BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review *
Twelve sparely written but moving tales of near-future water shortages and overpopulation * New Scientist *
[Jones] brings tenderness and a haunting lyricism to an affecting novel...Jones is known for the perfect economy of his novels, and this is no exception, a novel whose urgent message is rendered no less powerful for the beauty of its delivery -- Welsh Book of the Month * Waterstones *
A more powerful parable [...] is hard to imagine...Wonderfully pared back and impressionistic * Scotsman *
A piece of superb hardboiled noir... Stillicide has an enigmatic, surging power...This is a novella that seeks to alientate us from our grip on language and from our everyday taken-for-granted understanding of reality...powerful and disturbing * New Welsh Review *
Jones's book is written in a striking imagistic style that makes it vividly convincing * Sunday Times *
