I Saw A Man - Softcover

An exemplary domestic thriller, with an unstoppable plot and lots of expertly detonated surprises. (Sunday Times Best Reads on the Beach)

A tense, intelligent page-turner. (The Times Best Summer Reads)

A gripping and stylish thriller ... finely tuned suspense that erupts into visceral drama ... An award-winning poet, his honed prose is full of images of photographic sharpness that leap from the page. But this is also a novel driven by ideas, which, in keeping with its central theme, spins out across the world ... bold and satisfying. (Daily Mail)

Extraordinarily tense and powerful, and beautifully written (Mail on Sunday)

Sheers' thriller is driven as much by subtle ideas as suspense ... psychologically astute ... Sheers writes carefully about careless people and the results present the reader with a reflective window on to self-deception ... a clever novel. (Independent)

It twists and turns and plays its cards close to its chest, showing its full hand only in the final pages, when we are forced to reassess everything that has gone before ... taut as a thriller, but resonant with motifs of intimacy and distance, guilt and redemption, and the nature of stories and storytelling. (Sarah Crown, Guardian)

A powerful, dark study of brutality, grief and guilt ... There are so many expertly detonated surprises ... Immensely pleasurable ... This is an exemplary thriller, clever, classy, slick - and always one step ahead of the reader. (Sunday Times)

A rare and luscious treat for the reader. (The Times)

The story is at its most gripping when untangling the "causal web" leading to tragic consequences, spanning out to New York and the Nevada deserts ... A profound meditation on memory and mourning. (Observer)

A powerful moral thriller ... Sheers skilfully drip-feeds the reader his characters' secrets and lies, including a remarkable sequence leading up to the book's central, shocking moment of revelation ... I Saw a Man's ending is similarly bravura, elegantly throwing into new light much of what has gone before. (Literary Review)

Owen Sheers has written two collections of poetry, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill. His non-fiction includes The Dust Diaries and Calon: A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby. His novel Resistance has been translated into ten languages and was made into a film in 2011. His plays include The Passion and The Two Worlds of Charlie F. He has been a NYPL Cullman Fellow, Writer in Residence for the Wordsworth Trust and Artist in Residence for the Welsh Rugby Union.