- Published: 15 March 2009
- ISBN: 9780099492856
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $26.99
A Short Gentleman











- Published: 15 March 2009
- ISBN: 9780099492856
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $26.99
Canter is a sharp writer with a wickedly dry wit. His precise style is a joy to read, combining riotous humour and moments of genuine pathos
Metro
With great panache and assurance, Jon Canter lampoons the pretentions of England's top legal set...this comic tour de force.
Emma Hagestadt, Independent
Witty, accomplished and highly entertaining
Mail on Sunday
This is light reading but deceptively so, offering deliciously well observed vignettes of the top legal set
Time Out
Exhilarating...brilliantly plotted
New Statesman
Brilliant, but for God's sake don't let this book fall into the hands of any women - if they find out what we're really like we'll never hear the end of it
Charlie Higson
Brilliantly witty
Arabella Weir
Jon Canter projects a series of funny, sometimes hilarious, incidents in which the comedy is structured rather than slapstick, verging on the licentious but masterfully avoiding it
Times Literary Supplement
He is arguably the finest comic novelist working in Britain today. Indeed, he may just be finest comic anything working in Britain right now... Canter's prose is achingly funny...it is also vital, acute, literary and oddly moving.
James Kidd, Independent