Heathrow Nights - Softcover

This is an excellent parallel text for those reading Hamlet - humane, often witty, and stimulating. Its perspective should endear it to teachers tackling the play for the umpteenth time with a new set of puzzled faces, offering fresh angles from which to view that tragic hero alongside a perceptive depiction of the rougher edges of grief. (The Guardian, 3rd April 2001)

In HEATHROW NIGHTS she (Jan Mark) is on top form, accompanying three mixed-up young lads on the run from adult disapproval....the story is spot-on contemporary. (TES, 4th May 2001)

It's a brilliant idea to plant the characters at Heathrow airport, where they pretend to be travellers, in order to while away the time that their parents think they are spending on the school trip. Mark herself seems fairly pleased with the central notion for the book - she admits to being personally intrigued by the notion of "a landlocked island where no-one lives". (THE SCOTSMAN, 7th April 2001)

This was an excellent novel...I would strongly recommend it to young teenagers... (TEENTITLES)

HEATHROW NIGHTS takes a cool look at three male teenagers....Russell the narrator, identifies throughout with Hamlet, since he too has a mother who remarried speedily after the death of his father. Yet Russell's thoughts about the play gradually, and cleverly, change as he comes to see Hamlet and himself in a more critical light. When his new stepfather, alias Claudius, comes to collect him there is just time for a moderately upbeat ending to offset the bleaknes that has come before. (THE INDEPENDENT, 14th April 2001)