Quote Sheet:Arthur Phillips ‘A tour de force of plotting ... one of the most horrendously, hideously humorous endings in modern fiction. It will knock you out’
— Washington Post ‘’I’ll be reading Arthur Phillip’s wonderful comic novel/detective story The Egyptologist for a second time, because the scattered clues only make sense in the last few pages’’
— Christopher Frayling The Guardian' ‘Comic ... clever ... [Phillips] demonstrates great zest in mixing fact and fiction, history and satire, to concoct a rollicking narrative that’s one part Evelyn Waugh, one part H. Rider Haggard, one part World Book Encyclopaedia
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— New York Times ‘a major novelist in the making’
— Kirkus Reviews ‘Wildly inventive ... Phillips’ pitch-perfect ventriloquism is a wonder
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— Time Out New York ‘Vastly entertaining ... Phillips is a master manipulator, able to assume a dozen convincingly different voices at will, and this book is vastly entertaining … The ending, which cannot be revealed, is shocking
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— Publishers Weekly ‘The Egyptologist soars so high, into clouds of such bright comic invention, that Phillips achieves a hilarity equal to anything in Prague ... A novel very much worth reading’
— (Editor’s Choice) New York Times Book Review ‘[Nothing] is what it seems in this awesomely clever fiction
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— Chicago Sun-Times | 
