'One of the great English novels of the past ten years' Zadie Smith. 'A refreshingly idiosyncratic, enjoyably intelligent read.' The Guardian. 'Remainder is an intelligent and absurd satire on consumer culture.' The Times. 'McCarthy's prose is precise and unpretentious. His anti-hero is a sympathetic Everyman, and it is difficult to resist the dominion of his obsession... its minatory brilliance calls for classic status.' The Independent. '...strangely gripping... Remainder should be read (and, of course, reread) for its intelligence and humour.' TLS. 'The storyline mesmerizes in its imaginative brilliance... the novel explores complex philosophical ideas about being in a simple and direct way..' The Sunday Telegraph. 'Enthralling, dotted with dark humour and undoubted originality... it really sticks around in the mind, nagging at one afterwards, and the most complimentary thing that can be said about this novel of repeating scenes is that it really does deserve to be read a second time.' The Irish Times. 'This isn't how we expect a novel to be, but it's why it's a very good novel indeed. It trains you out of a certain way of thinking.' London Review of Books.

Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in Lon- don. He is known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions he has made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His novel Men in Space has been published by Alma in 2007 and his new novel C has just been short- listed for the Man Booker 2010.