The Pleasure of my Company - Tapa dura

'It's like reading PG Wodehouse on acid or Monty Python on Valium: calmly surreal.... this is light-hearted, quick-witted slapstick; innocent and playful, original and funny.' (Will Hammond, THE OBSERVER)

'The book succeeds as a light comic novel and there are a number of set-pieces -.... where Martinn uses Daniel's obsessive compulsiveness to great comic effect.' (David Baddiel, THE TIMES)

Although he has written another fable about the transforming power of love, Martin keeps the sentimentality in check...... the tragic subtext is balanced by slapstick that makes you laugh out loud.' (Mark Sanderson, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

'It is often laugh-out-loud funny: Daniel's OCD (which he never refers to by name) enables his observations to be sharply ingenuous, a viable vehicle for the author's wit.... deftly sustained and thoroughly enjoyable.' (Dominic Maxwell TIME OUT)

'What Martin has done is to create a distinct, believable and very strange character, Daniel Pecan Cambridge, who bears no resemblance to anyone except Daniel Pecan Cambridge.' (Brandon Robshaw, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

'Many comedians try to write novels: Martin's consummate and kindly work proves he can.' (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY)

'This highly entertaining book.' (Alex Clark, RED MAGAZINE)

'a highly original and moving story' (SUNDAY MIRROR)

'every bit as amusing and compulsive as its creator' (SAINSBURY MAGAZINE)

genuinely comic scenes with cinematic overtones and a memorably mixed-up clown in a Woody Allen mould. (Tom Widger SUNDAY TRIBUNE)