A mistress-piece of sustained and weirdly wonderful Gothic that's both intensely amusing and also provocatively serious. This is a big, superlatively imagined novel. Observer
A remarkable book by any standards. Guardian
Angela Carter chosen as best ever winner of James Tait Black award. The judges of Britain’s oldest literary award choose 1984 novel Nights at the Circus by the late Angela Carter, one of the lesser-known novels on the list.