Service

Highly accomplished, deeply satisfying ... I marked up almost every page for the zingers, the takedowns and the memorable sad man lit bantz * TLS *
Full of whipsmart lines on the drudgery of retail, the futility of art and the hateful lifestyles of hipsters, Service is laugh-out-loud funny and nearly always bang-on true * Daily Mail *
A winning mix of scabrous workplace comedy and mischievous metafiction * Observer *
Savage, furious, hilarious and melancholic all at once -- Suzi Feay * Financial Times *
So heartfelt that we find ourselves howling with laughter because, despite his best efforts, John Tottenham writes with a rare comic intensity and re-creates himself in the guise of an unforgettable character in fiction -- Colm Tóibín
The weariest bohemian, with a Keatsian death-drive he somehow keeps outliving, John Tottenham is my favourite nihilistic romantic -- Rachel Kushner, Booker-shortlisted author of Creation Lake
Hilarious... A book about the destruction of bohemia and the nightmare of trying to live--let alone make art--with very little money. * The New York Review of Books *
Acerbic, misanthropic and surprisingly funny * Sunday Post *
Hilarious, refreshingly mean-spirited and often brilliant * Washington Post *
A post-punk Byron ... Service looks like a blow but is a prayer -- Constance Debré, award-winning author of Love Me Tender
Tottenham is an extraordinarily fine writer. He is blessed with a gift for observation ... this is a book of the moment -- Jarett Kobek, author of the internationally bestselling novel I Hate the Internet
Consistently hilarious and occasionally heartening -- Los Angeles Review of Books
This gritty, bleak, nihilistic, yet darkly funny, novel contains more insight into bookseller life than the many dozens of other contemporary novels on the subject * Lit Hub *
The funniest novel about thwarted literary ambitions and professional jealousy since Amis' The Information * Buzz Mag *
A wicked sense of humour * The New York Times *