It is difficult to believe that the writer who made his debut with the elegiac, subtle half-tones of THE LONG AFTERNOON should now have produced this dazzling fireworks display of a novel... [But] THE HOUND IN THE LEFT-HAND CORNER is no less satisfying than its highly lauded predecessor... Waterfield is entirely at home in his subject... he rarely produces a dull paragraph or even sentence... this book combines arcane information and sparkling entertainment with equal verve and skill - Francis King, Daily Telegraph
Waterfield's wry examination of sponsorship versus scholarship as the primary aim of cultural institutions makes a timely and enjoyable read - Daily Mail
Intrigue and passion seethe beneath the surface in this wonderful comic delight - Woman and Home
Waterfield has a sharp eye and clear ear for the vanities of public position... a delicious satire. I have not read anything since C.P. Snow's THE MASTERS which deals so well with the nasty tensions of trying to keep an intellect intact in public service. .. can be read as an amusing comedy, or as an acidulous critique of the contrary, even destructive, forces at large in the museum world - Stephen Bayley, Independent
A sardonic and brilliantly witty tale that deftly combines intellectual comedy with knockabout farce - Margaret Walters, The Sunday Times
A rumbustious and hugely entertaining satire about th
