Cell - Brossura

This is a Stephen King novel, so while it is very clever and brilliantly written, it is also bathed in blood...The denouement is satisfyingly explosive, but I promise you you won't use your mobile for days. (Guardian)

Very clever and brilliantly written . . . you won't use your mobile for days. (Guardian)

The true narrative artist is a rare creature. Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. I don't think it can be taught. Plenty of things about writing can be - but this cannot. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades. (The Times)

The true narrative artist is a rare creature. Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. I don't think it can be taught . . . Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades. (The Times)

What makes this one of his most poignant books is not the gore or the sinister threats of the near-articulate zombie called the Raggedy man. It is a father's helpless dread of what he has not been able to prevent. (Time Out)

What makes this one of his most poignant books is not the gore or the sinister threats . . . It is a father's helpless dread of what he has not been able to prevent. (Time Out)

Fans will rejoice that King has gone back to his horror-novel roots (Mark Billingham, Daily Mail)

King's genius for storytelling ensures there is plenty still to chew on. is King just scaring us into binning our mobiles? For now, I'm sticking to the landline. (Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror)

'King's genius for storytelling ensures there is plenty still to chew on. is King just scaring us into binning our mobiles? For now, I'm sticking to the landline.' (Daily Mirror)

It is a dynamic, riproaring read and at times also exceedingly funny. It comes complete with an ending of surprising emotion ... welcomed by King's millions of loyal readers. (Scotsman)

Stephen King has written some 40 books and novellas, including CARRIE, THE STAND and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (from the collection DIFFERENT SEASONS), BAG OF BONES, ON WRITING and most recently CELL. He wrote several novels under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, including BLAZE (June 2007). He won America's prestigious National Book Award. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Maine, USA.