Christos Tsiolkas - award winning Australian author. Merciless Gods. Praise for Merciless Gods. Merciless Gods begins with its 4. It is stunning and should be read by everyone in the country who cares about fiction. It is worth the price of the book .. Tsiolkas' development is so remarkable that it brings to mind .. Almodovar and those extraordinary humane Sirkian masterpieces of the great Spanish filmmaker's later work ..

Tsiolkas] has produced fiction of such power and compositional grace with its hand so sure of its sense of the pulse of the world. Read the rest of Peter Craven's review for the Sydney Morning Herald.

How can it be that in an era when literature's power to shock has been tested to the point of exhaustion, Christos Tsiolkas retains the ability to do just that? Tsiolkas' genius partly lies in his willingness to embrace all the vulgar thoughts, acts and objects that many other writers consciously exclude in order to achieve their more rarefied ends … the other glory of the stories … are the many instances of tenderness, sensuality and unashamed enunciation of desire they contain. Read the full review at The Saturday Paper. After five novels Christos Tsiolkas has released his first collection of short stories, and it's well worth the wait. Merciless Gods is a collection of vitality, clever angles, shock value, power and unexpected delicacy … As a collection, the stories play off each other superbly … Although the stories span 2. Perhaps the greatest ability of Tsiolkas is his ability to communicate energy through the static medium of the printed page … One can only hope we don't have to wait another 2.

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Read the rest of Ed Wright's review at The Australian. There is no doubt Christos Tsiolkas is a master of the written word. He tickles and seduces us with the innocence and excitement of a new lover leading you to places we wouldn't often dare to go, before plunging you into the harshest and darkest of nightmares.

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Tsiolkas's work is highly addictive. Once you start, you just can't stop! But of course, like all quintessential Tsiolkas, these stories aren't for the faint hearted!

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Emily Harms on the Readings blog. Merciless Gods has all the edginess that readers of Tsiolkas's work will have come to expect, and then some. Each individual story is a masterclass in the art of story telling. They are moving and compelling, grabbing hold of you by the scruff of the neck from the opening line and pulling you under.

Read the rest of this review at Bookblog. Interviews. Barracuda. Interviews. Praise for Barracuda.

After the success of 2. The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas could be excused for feeling he had nothing more to prove. Perhaps though it was that completely unexpected good fortune that planted one of the seeds for Barracuda, surely his most personal and heartfelt book to date, and I think his most accomplished.

Our world has been Tsiolkasised. On the strength of Barracuda, there is not a more important writer working in Australia today. Read the full review by Martin Shaw at Books+Publishing. Christos Tsiolkas’ latest book is his best yet.

Read the full review at Arts Hub.. Tsiolkas is a master chronicler of the zeitgeist. Read the full review by Mary Kostakidis in The Guardian. This is Tsiolkas's fifth novel, and I think his best so far. It's as if every time he writes a book he strips away another layer from not only our national self, but from the reader personally. I look forward to them like the birth of a child, and this one – after five years – is perfectly formed.

Read the full review by Annette Hughes at the Newtown Review of Books. If, as I suspect, Tsiolkas is still striving towards his own imaginary Olympics, struggling with his own ambition and the sources of that ambition, then Barracuda shows not just brilliant form but philosophical reach.

Read the full review by Jennifer Mills at Overland. I read it a couple of weeks ago and I can't stop thinking about it.

I can't stop talking about it either but I am struggling to choose my adjectives, because all the ones I want to use sound like impossibly overblown hyperbole. Also, the kinds of words I am tempted to use are "visceral", "heartbreaking", and "searing" which make it sound like a difficult and dreary read when in fact it is so vibrant and tender and beautiful that I couldn't get enough of it. Never have I been more glad that a book was over 5.

Read the full review at The Girl Booker. Tsiolkas is better than anyone else writing in Australia today at thinking about the affective pull and the sharp edges of communities: ethnicity, family, friendship, class, nation.

Read the full review by Julieanne Lamond at the Sydney Review of Books. UK praise for Barracuda. Tsiolkas writes with compelling clarity about the primal stuff that drives us all: the love and hate and fear of failure. He is also brilliant on the nuances of relationships.

Some of the scenes in this novel about the hurt human beings inflict on each other are so painful that they chill the blood. At times, the prose is near to poetry..

There are shades of Faulkner in this brilliant, beautiful book. If it doesn't make you cry, you can't be fully alive. Sunday Times. By page 7. I realised that I was reading something epic and supremely accomplished. Thereafter, I found myself more and more admiring of the subtle, profoundly human way that Tsiolkas was handling his subject. And I finished Barracuda on a high: moved, elated, immersed.. This is the work of a superb writer who has completely mastered his craft but lost nothing of his fiery spirit in so doing.

It is a big achievement. Guardian. This involving and substantial tale - surprisingly tender for all its sweary shock- value - is carried swiftly along by Tsiolkas's athletic, often lyrical prose. Daily Mail. Masterful, addictive, clear- eyed storytelling about the real business of life: winning and losing. Viv Groskop, Red Online. The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas's bestselling previous novel declared "Welcome to Australia in the early 2. The same semi- ironic sentiment echoes throughout Barracuda, which is, if anything, an even greater novel..

It may tell an old, old story, but it has rarely been told in a better way. Telegraph. Praise for The Slap.

Once in a while a novel comes along that reminds me why I love to read: The Slap is such a book . Tsiolkas throws open a window on society, picks apart its flaws, embraces its contradictions and recognises its beauty, all the time asking the reader, Who side are you on?

Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium. John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The Slap is nothing short of a tour de force, and it confirms Christos Tsiolkas's reputation as one of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work today. Here is a novel of immense power and scope. Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn.

It's often said that the best politicians are those who can instinctively divine the zeitgeist of their country's centre. For the ones who can't, I would place The Slap as mandatory bedside table reading. It's a perfect social document of what Australia is today. More importantly, it's also one hell of a read. Venero Armanno, The Australian.

With The Slap Tsiolkas secures his place as one of our most important novelists . By painting an Australia we can recognise in language so good you don't notice it, Tsiolkas has written an absolute ripper.